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TIL Vitamin D is not really a vitamin, but a hormone that starts synthesis with sunlight.

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4XLOg TIL Norway's first aircraft hijacking was resolved after the hijacker surrendered his weapon in exchange for more beer
GAZ7 TIL: that when the author of Charlotte’s Web (E.B. White) did the recording for the audio book, it took him 17 takes to record the passage about her death because each time he would cry or his voice would crack.
5YRAr TIL the "golden spike" the last spike hammered into the transcontinental railroad, was immediately removed and given to railroad baron Leland Stanford who put on display in Palo Alto, California.
WwRd TIL it costs about $65,000 to climb Mt. Everest
0wpWy TIL Every year, 10 Russian officials travel to US military bases to check that the B-1 bomber cannot carry a nuke, as part of the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty.