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TIL that Oprah dated movie critic Roger Ebert

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j6jbj TIL The summit of Mount Everest is not the farthest point on Earth away from the Earth's center. The summit of Chimborazo, a volcano in Ecuador, holds that designation due to Earth's slight equitorial bulge.
4WEo TIL When Julius Caesar died, he left today’s equivalent of about $270 to each and every Roman citizen.
07Xp TIL in Caracas, Venezuela, as kids go to bed on xmas Eve, they tie a string to their big toe, leaving the other end outside their bedroom window. Streets are closed to cars until 8am for people to roller-skate to early mass, tugging on hanging string as they go by to wake the ones that are sleeping.
oBaRR TIL that during the Vietnam war, tens of thousands of desperate Americans immigrated north to Canada to escape the draft. A political response was never taken, partly because just as many Canadians hopped down south to join the American military.
a84VJ TIL an oil platform called Piper Alpha, located in the North Sea about 120 miles (190 km) north-east of Aberdeen, Scotland, exploded and sank on 6 July 1988, killing 165 of the men on board.