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TIL The Machame route is the most popular route on Mount Kilimanjaro and doable even for first time backpackers with little to no altitude experience over 6, 7 days

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XmV8 TIL President Ulysses S. Grant smoked an estimated 12 cigars a day. He also became the first president to die of cancer, only 5 days after finishing his autobiography.
oOn7 TIL back in 2008 Microsoft offered to buy Yahoo for $44.6 billion. Yahoo declined and Bing was created.
77ZO TIL that Godwin’s law states that “As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Hitler approaches 1”
0dGBR TIL why do mirrors reverse left and right, but not top and bottom? The mirror does not reflect left to right or top to bottom, but it does reflect backwards. In other words, it is reversed, but inverted into the third dimension, like a glove is turned inside out.
g1n8 TIL the longest-serving death row inmate is a Japanese former boxer. He’s been in solitary confinement for 44 years. And he could well be innocent, as a 2012 DNA test revealed.