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TIL the youngest person to climb to the summit of the 14,180-foot Mount Shasta in California was the seven-year-old Eva Luna Harper-Zahn.

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loGx1 TIL that in the late 1860's, the Phylloxera (insect) destroyed almost all of the French vineyards and that Americans saved it by exporting some vines to be grafted, resulting in a pest-resistant vine, saving the French from a catastrophic loss.
vPBgB TIL that in just 20 months ( three campaigning seasons), the Roman Republic lost one-fifth (150.000) of the entire male population of citizens over 17 years of age during the Second Punic Wars (218 - 201 BC)
XEKxD TIL The British secret service, MI6, used semen as invisible ink during WWI
WmnB TIL some free range turkey farms use alpacas to guard their flocks from foxes, since alpacas are extremely territorial and will accept the turkeys as part of their herd, defending them by chasing off predators
4k9Yw TIL: There are 53 "Thankful" villages in the UK where all their members of the armed forces survived WW1. There are 14 which are "Doubly Thankful" having also lost no-one in WW2.