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TIL-There is cell phone service on mount everest, with 4G being available at that height.

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Oompe TIL tarsiers can become suicidal. These animals are so sensitive that when they are touched or kept in captivity they hit their head against objects and are killed due to their thin skull.
yQjaV TIL in April of 2018, Revée Agyepong became one of the first adults to be cured of sickle cell anemia via stem cell transplant. Revée’s donor was her own sister, who turned out to be a 100% match.
yQ78a TIL, authors will write themselves into their own stories for various purposes. Stephen King wrote himself into the Dark Tower series after a near-fatal accident. (Stephen King in the book also suffers the same accident)
OG0wX TIL there was a false belief in Europe starting in the 13th Century that Jewish males experience periodic bleeding through nosebleeds, urination or hemorrhoids bleeding similarly to women having their periods.
8eARL TIL in the 1920s Fiat had a 1/2 mile race track built on the roof of their factory