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TIL the summit of Mount Everest is the parent peak of Aconcagua in Argentina at a distance of 17,755 km (11,032 miles)

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OdQg TIL the reason dogs walk in circles before going to sleep is because this is how they would create a bed in long grass in the wild
R7DMa TIL that in 2014 Pope Francis declared evolution and the Big Bang Theory to be right and said that the Big Bang "does not contradict the divine act of creating, but rather requires it".
0dAPy TIL: The same man who created a new style of hard to detect audio bug (secret agent listening device) also created a musical instrument (the theremin).
e0ed6 TIL Dreams are caused by the random firing of neurons in the cerebral cortex during the REM period. The forebrain then creates a story in an attempt to reconcile and make sense of the nonsensical sensory information presented to it.
OopL TIL Queen Elizabeth II is descended from the Prophet Muhammad