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TIL that Gangkhar Puensum (Bhutan) is the highest unclimbed mountain in the world. Budding mountaineers have been forbidden to climb it since 2003, and all attempts prior resulted in failure.

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VGDB TIL that in the late 19th century there was a dog, Bob, who would hitch rides all over the South Australian railway system. He had no owner but was widely known to railwaymen of the day. When he died he was eulogized around the world and was lauded as “the king of outcasts”.
rRkbW TIL that North Korea trained some members of the Official IRA and the men posed as members of the Maltese Communist Party
8eb9P TIL that Norway once knighted a penguin. Sir Nils Olav, a king penguin, serves as the official mascot and colonel-in-chief of the Norwegian King’s Guard. He has been promoted several times and even inspected the troops!
pb5b TIL that in 1978, current California congresswoman Jackie Speier, then a congressional aide to Leo Ryan, was shot 5 times in an ambush by supporters of Jim Jones while investigating human rights abuses at his Guyana compound, fleeing into the forest and waiting 22 hours before help arrived.
QJlOp TIL the Philippines is one of two countries, the other being Vatican City, that doesn't allow divorce. Instead, citizens have to go through an expensive & complex annulment process to circumvent the divorce ban.