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TIL that Mount Everest is equipped with 3G mobile service so you can tweet your ascent all the way to the summit.

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JNx4 TIL in 2010 a Xbox Live user was banned because he declared Fort Gay as his Hometown. Microsoft apologised later, because the place is real.
7rabO TIL that some rainbows have only one color and it is called a "Monochrome rainbow".
WobX TIL Jeanne Calment met van Gogh at the age of ten, started fencing at the age of 85, was bicycling at the age of 100 and died 122 years old. She also smoked for 96 years and is quoted saying: “I’ve never had but one wrinkle, and I’m sitting on it.”
1xb7 TIL: Mark Twain once said, “ the truth is, that when a Library expels a book of mine and leaves an unexpurgated Biblelying around where unprotected youth and age can get hold of it, the deep unconscious irony of it delights me and doesn’t anger me.”
D1Wxe TIL that most players who got the All-American title in basketball were Asian-Americans despite only representing 0.2% of players in the NBA