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TIL Mt Everest was named after George Everest, whose name is pronounced EVE-REST, not EVER-EST.

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4XjNa TIL that during WWII there was an event known as that 'Battle of Los Angeles'. Citizens and military thought the Japanese were attacking Los Angeles and fired AA guns into the sky. Turns out it was only a lost weather balloon.
oRBR8 TIL Korea has a she-bear foundation myth. A god ordered a tiger and bear to stay in a cave and eat only garlic and mugwort for 100 days. The tiger failed, but the bear persisted and transformed into a woman. The she-bear married the god's son, gave birth to the founder of the oldest Korean kingdom
J1dP1 TIL In 1978, a bolt got lodged in a bottlenose dolphin's (named Mr. Spock) throat during tank maintenance. With surgery ruled out as too dangerous, Northen CA theme park, Marine World, reached out to the Golden State Warriors 6'9" center, Clifford Ray, to use his long arm to retrieve the bolt.
d81xr TIL Kevin Leach, the Oklahoma Sooners' offensive coach, left a fake offensive script for the opposing Texas Longhorns coaching staff to find. As a result, the underdog Sooners took at 17-0 lead after only 10 minutes
Mexe8 TIL the "big fat phony" guy from Family Guy is credited as "Holden Caulfield", Protagonist of Catcher in the Rye who often accuses people of being "phony".