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TIL Denmark built a waste to energy plant that is a giant ski slope (open year round) and it also includes the worlds tallest artificial climbing wall.

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ne8L9 TIL Amazing Information about The golden mask of King Tutankhamun inside a glass cabinet at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo
JdMV TIL That the Beats audio driver included with some laptops actually makes the sound worse than stock when you turn it off, to make the beats ‘enhancements’ sound better by comparison.
QJg4a TIL the oldest person to ever complete a marathon is Fauja Singh, who ran the Toronto Waterfront Marathon in 2011 at the ripe old age of 100 years - also making him the only ever centenarian to do such! He completed the 42 kilometres in a bit over 8 hours.
d8897 TIL After building an underpass for elephants to cross the highway near Mt. Kenya, it took less than 12 hours for the first elephant to use it.
neaZG TIL that retired astronaut, Heidemarie Martha Stefanyshyn-Piper, accidentally lost a bag of tools during a spacewalk in 2008. The tools, valued at $100,000, were lost when she accidentally pushed aside the bag they were in and it floated away.