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TIL: The Hillary Step on Mt Everest was destroyed in the 2015 Himalayan earthquake.

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KmPB TIL Aldous Huxley got LSD injected by his wife right before he died
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m1kvR TIL of Black Caesar. He was a West African pirate who operated during the Golden Age of Piracy. He served aboard the Queen Anne's Revenge of Edward Teach (Blackbeard) and was one of the surviving members of that crew following Blackbeard’s death at the hands of Lieutenant Robert Maynard in 1718.