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TIL that a hippo's sweat is pink and acts as sunscreen.

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W8Ad TIL that the inventor or the smiley face symbol Harvey Ball, was paid just $45 for the design.
kJBO5 TIL of Mitsutoki Shigeta, the son of a wealthy and powerful Japanese millionaire entrepreneur who ran a baby factory in Thailand; fathering dozens of babies in his personal quest to tilt elections in his favor and breed a family of voters.
kw6E TIL that Paul Newman, voicing Doc Hudson in the Cars movie, died before Cars 2 and therefore Pixar included that Doc Hudson died before Cars 2 takes place.
ngOB TIL That Mathematical Physicist Arnold Sommerfeld holds the record for the mentoring the highest number of Nobel Laureates, but won none out of the 81 times he was nominated for the same honour
yVOr8 TIL the British had a secret WW2 plan called Operation Tracer to leave behind an observation post if the Germans captured Gibraltar. Six men were to be sealed inside a hidden chamber to observer the harbor and Strait of Gibraltar. They would have had 7 years of supplies and bicycle-powered radios.