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TIL That the fastest ever ascent of the world's highest mountain, Mt Everest was in a time of 8 hr 10 min, usually it takes weeks

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WkgRd TIL Pixar's Cars (2006) was simultaneously Pixar's final movie to be released on VHS and their first movie to be released on Blu-ray.
690A8 TIL the odds of dying for a 78 year old man, irrespective of personal health, is 1 in 19. By age 83 those odds are 1 in 12.
KO04G Protons are made up of even smaller particles called quarks, so you might expect that simply adding up the quarks’ masses should give you the proton’s mass. However, that sum is much too small to explain the proton’s bulk. And new, detailed calculations show that only 9 percent of the proton’s heft comes from the mass of constituent quarks. The rest of the proton’s mass comes from complicated effects occurring inside the particle, researchers report in the Nov. 23 Physical Review Letters.
nA77 TIL The newest member of the US Supreme Court must take notes, answer the phone, hold the door and pour the coffee for the more senior members during private meetings.
rXo1 TIL that TEL (tetraethyl lead), an octane booster gasoline additive that was killing Standard Oil Refinery workers or rendering them mad in the 1920’s, wasn’t’ banned by the United States until 1986 largely due to business interests.