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TIL Mount Everest grows in height by 4mm (0.16in) every year

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NXjLe TIL about a 16th century book that opens six different ways, revealing six different books in one
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J1gwB TIL Mannheim Steamroller was unable to find any record label to release their unusual work, so their founder Chip Davis created his own label, American Grammaphone, based in Omaha, NE. They have sold more than 30 Million albums.
QJpAa TIL leading up to Pearl Harbor the US lost track of Japanese aircraft carriers, observed the Japanese consulate burning documents, encountered hostile submarines near Hawaii and had reports of a cluster of aircraft 137 miles north of Oahu, yet only realized an attack was under way when bombs dropped
R5kN8 TIL about the Zimmermann Telegram, a secret diplomatic communication issued from the German Foreign Office in January 1917 that proposed a military alliance between Germany and Mexico if the USA entered World War I against Germany. The telegram was intercepted by British intelligence.