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TIL human sweat is the most extreme and distinctively human evolutionary trait as a whole.

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9w07B TIL that brothers Winthrop and Nelson Rockefeller were state governors at the same time; Winthrop as governor in Arkansas and Nelson in New York.
9wrA6 TIL that, during production of Thor: The Dark World, Marvel decided that the Aether and previous MacGuffins would be used as Infinity Stones. In order to give each stone its own color, the red Orb in Guardians of the Galaxy was changed to purple in post-production.
1NoD TIL in 2004, the 276 member studio audience of the Oprah Show were each given a Pontiac G-6 sedan. Oprah told producers to fill the crowd with people who “desperately needed” cars. On average each person was slapped with a $6000 tax bill.
YXE7 TIL Martha Stewart once dated Anthony Hopkins, but broke it off because she couldn’t get it out of her head that he was Hannibal Lector. Verified by her in a NPR: Wait Wait interview
R7O0j TIL After 9 months of procrastination and zero work on the project, Frank Lloyd Wright created the plans for Fallingwater in 2.5 hrs after hearing the client happened to be in town and was on his way to Frank's office.