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TIL The creator of Firefox works on the Google Chrome team

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RLnl TIL Sir Edmund Hillary, the first man to summit Mount Everest, traveled to the North Pole in 1985 with Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon. Hillary thus became the first man to complete the 3 Pole Challenge (North, South, Everest)
76wX TIL Maine’s state flower is a pinecone.
G5Og TIL the Queen can de-knight someone, one of the last people to be de-knighted was a financier who participated in a scheme to inflate the share price of Guinness.
b9xQ4 Today I learned that most gelatin ( used to make gummy things and jello) is made from boiling cow's skin, ligaments and bone
kJ4d TIL a ferry sank in the Baltic Sea in 1994. The ship and 852 passengers are still at the bottom of the sea, and it’s illegal to dive to it.