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

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16BmD TIL on New Year’s Day 1959, Johnny Cash performed a show at San Quentin Prison in front of 5,000 inmates, including 21 year old prisoner Merle Haggard
N7mXM TIL about Foreign Accent Syndrome (FAS) which causes individuals to be temporarily or permanently perceived to be speaking with a foreign accent
mxAmx TIL That one of the most important mathematical books ever written, Principia Mathematica, needed 360 pages to prove that 1 + 1 = 2. The book itself is considered so advanced and hard to understand that it's rarely used in academia at all.
m1JVy TIL: The Inaccessible Island Rail (laterallus rogersi) has evolved to be the world’s smallest flightless bird on a remote island free from predators. The introduction of a few mating pairs of rats would likely decimate the rail’s population.
wLdlJ TIL The Kreung Tribe of Cambodia builds love huts where teenaged girls can have sex with different men till they find ''Mr Right''.