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TIL: the internet has its own internal weather and you can observe it

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Brmoe TIL the Mount Everest isn't called by that name by the locals of the Himalayan region. The Tibetans named the mountain "Chomolungma" (Holy Mother Mountain) while the Nepalese call it "Sagarmatha" (Goddess Sky Mountain). The Chinese use the either the Tibetan name or Shengmu Feng (Holy Mother Peak).
v1Dy8 TIL There are 11 statues of John A MacDonald, Canada's first prime minister, including at the Prime Ministers Path in Baden, Ontario, a collection of statues of all of Canada’s PMs before Kim Campbell
ZpZrY TIL After Peter Zhu was declared brain dead at 21, his parents immediately asked permission to have his sperm extracted to ensure male offspring for the family. The Supreme Court agreed, even though bioethicists argued that the request was never even made by a spouse
gM84 TIL that women who have anal sex have more orgasms.
MePr7 TIL the Aztecs worshipped a god called Xipe Totec, meaning "Our Lord the Flayed One"; He is always portrayed draped in freshly flayed skin.