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TIL - The tallest mountain in the World is Not Everest

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p8EDQ TIL In late 1970s Italy coins have become scarce so shops used candy, bus tickets, and telephone tokens as change until banks started issuing a kind of non-money replacement
JYnJ8 TIL that jazz legend Dave Brubeck was nearly expelled from college because he could not read music. The college was afraid it would cause a scandal, and agreed to let Brubeck graduate only after he had promised to never teach piano.
MP1m TIL that a man waited 20 hours to buy pot legally in WA. The news filmed the sale and the man lost his job.
W77do TIL that the U.S. Highway system is labeled by numbers in a certain way: Odd numbers run north and south and even numbers run east and west
JYdrl TIL a computer algorithm created by Stanford University can identify a human's sexuality based on photographs. If shown five images of any guy, it can predict if he is gay with a 91% accuracy. The “gaydar” program has not been made public.