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TIL A university in Pennsylvania sells the Plan B pill in a vending machine.

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0PeM TIL two men para-glided off of the top of Mt. Everest, touching down over 15 miles away in only 42 minutes and avoiding the potentially deadly 3 day descent.
7b9X TIL in 2001 Pizza Hut paid the Russian space agency to send a pizza to the International Space Station at the cost of $1 million
lobnr TIL the Resusci Anne (CPR doll) is based on an actual person's face, who lived over 100 years ago.
brEZ TIL: This guy (Jason Lewis) became the 1st person to circumnavigate the Earth without using motors or sails. He walked, cycled, & inline skated 5 continents, & kayaked, swam, rowed, & pedalled a boat across the rivers, seas, and oceans. It took him 13 years to complete, the 46,505-mile journey.
jNlLN TIL If you trace back the DNA in the maternally inherited mitochondria within our cells, all humans have a theoretical common ancestor. A woman, known as “mitochondrial Eve”. All humans today can trace their mitochondrial DNA back to her.