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TIL that Bear Grylls was the first person to summit Mt. Everest after breaking a vertebrae. He also was the youngest Brit to summit at 23 in 1997, and flew over the summit with a powered paraglider in 2003.

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OGGOY TIL that Tom Cruise went to seminary school and wanted to become a Catholic priest, until he was booted for stealing the priests’ booze.
Mepxb TIL: Squirrels are among the top causes of power outages across the U.S. In 2016 alone, utilities reported 3,456 outages caused by the ubiquitous rodents that cut off power to more than 193,873 customers.
d81KZ TIL Carl Linneaus once proposed a clock made from different breeds of flowers, based when they opened and closed throughout the day.
5EjQ TIL that there are women out there called “tetrachromats” who, through mutation, can see millions of more colors than normal people.
r8Le TIL after being struck by lightning, golfer Lee Trevino was asked if he would do anything different to avoid it. “I’d stand in the fairway with my one iron pointed at the sky,” he said. “Not even God can hit the one iron.”