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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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wYQY TIL that when the Edmonton Oilers traded Wayne Gretzky to the LA Kings, the Canadian Government stepped in and wanted to block the trade.
B8PD TIL Alcoholics Anonymous has a 5 to 10% success rate ~ 1 in 15.
kkpE TIL Drogba pleaded with combantants in Ivory Coast to lay down their arms, resulting in a cease fire after 5 years civil war, also donating 3 million from his Pepsi signing bonus to build a hospital in his home town
DQNYY TIL that at the 1992 Winter Olympics Tonya Harding figure skated to a song called "People Are Still Having Sex." The non-instrumental was a Billboard US dance chart #1 hit, featuring a narrator talking about the fact that people are still having sex.
7ryMp TIL the idiom "a few bad apples" is actually "a few bad apples spoil the whole barrel" and refers to the fact that even if the majority of a group of people are 'good', if there are a few 'bad' or 'corrupt' people in the group, it invalidates everything else.