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TIL a 20-year old kid successfully climbed to the summit of Mount Everest and snowboarded his way down to the base camp. He only had 4 years of snowboarding experience prior to the stunt.

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a580 TIL the illustrator of Animorphs cover didn’t read the books when he was working on them and has never contacted the author although she sent him Christmas presents with candy. Publishers discourage illustrators from developing relations with authors
aw54b TIL Upbeat 70's classic "Dancing in the Moonlight" by King Harvest was written as an idealized version of the night writer Sherman Kelly was brutally attacked and left for dead by a gang.
d8ORE TIL Martin Luther King Sr was also a civil rights activist who lived until 1984
eJon TIL the Romans loved Chinese silk so much that the Senate banned its wearing by men in 14 A.D. It was hurting the economy as way too much silk was being imported and not enough of other stuff, like iron.
m1l0p TIL German author Friedrich Nietzsche would send letters calling for the German emperor to go to Rome to be shot & called for military action against Germany. He called for the Pope to be jailed & all anti-Semites to be shot. He also stated he created the world & signed his letters as 'Dionysus.'