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TIL Tenzing Norgay left some chocolate at the top of Mt Everest when he climbed with Edmund Hillary. The chocolate was just eaten by some vandals in 2012.

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Xnpj TIL Mister Rogers defended public television to the US Senate; his testimony helped convince the Congress to increase funding to PBS, rather than cut it in half, as President Nixon wanted
BrZZe TIL Starchy carbs, not a Paleo diet, were responsible for the rapid increase in size of the human brain around 800,000 years ago. Eating meat may have kickstarted this evolution, but cooked starchy foods, together with more salivary amylase genes, made us smarter still.
VWL0 TIL that the last recorded kill using a bow and arrow in war was made in WWII by British officer Jack Churchill, who carried a longbow, bagpipes and a Scottish broadsword into battle
mybE TIL the biblical Book of Judges tells a story in which a fat king is stabbed, the sword gets stuck in his fat, and the guards outside don’t check on him because they think he’s taking a shit.
nW44B TIL about Sci-Hub, a shadowy online library that bypasses paywalls to allow people to access over 50 million research papers for free, all in the interest of public knowledge.