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TIL that the top of Mount Chimborazo is farther from the Earth's center than Mount Everest

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bMeQ TIL that Frank Welker, the voice behind Scooby-Doo, Fred, Megatron, and more, has over 1,000 credits in voice acting, and, if the revenue from his credits was totaled, would be the highest-grossing actor of all time.
7BjP TIL: James Earl Jones drove cross-country and used Darth as his handle on the CB radio. The truck drivers would really freak out
e0o75 TIL in 1947 a woman with hives went to Johns Hopkins to cure her hives. She received an experimental drug Compund 1694 and not only her hives cleared up she reported that her trolly rides were free from nausea. Doctors immediately test the drug for motion sickness and Compund 1694 became Dramamine.
grAYX TIL researchers discovered the oldest known sentence written in the first alphabet, Canaanite, on a head-lice comb believed by scientists to have been made around 1700 BCE. The inscription on the luxury item reads "may this tusk root out the lice of the hair and the beard."
LQROv TIL of the White Rajahs who ruled over Sarawak in modern day Malaysia, from 1841 to 1946