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TIL it costs $65,000 to climb Mount Everest

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P1gmG TIL Six years after surviving a shark attack and following repeated appeals to South Australian authorities, Chris Blowes finally won a special exemption that gave him the legal right to possession of the tooth of the great white shark that took his leg. (Full story in comments)
6E7jY TIL the life expectancy of a black garden ant is about 15 years.
DQnKP TIL: Uzbekistan is one of the few countries with a high speed rail system. It's bullet trains can reach 250km/(160mph) along 600km of rail
e0N96 TIL that the entire world population could fit inside Los Angeles if each one of us stood shoulder to shoulder.
B7JK TIL that Russians almost surely didn’t put frogs in their milk to preserve it.