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kOe1 TIL Pornhub is the 69th most visited website in the world.
X0D98 TIL Teddy Roosevelt's 2nd son Kermit Roosevelt joined his father's Amazon expedition and had a river named after him, resigned from US Army in 1917 to join the British Forces to fight in WWI. To join the first fight in Finland/Norway, he took help of Churchill to secure a commission in British Army.
pbQ8 TIL in 1846, John Torrington perished during an expedition to find the Northwest Passage. When his corpse was exhumed 138 years later, it was almost perfectly preserved – eyes wide open, clothing intact, and limbs so flexible that moving him felt like moving someone unconscious rather than dead.
GY6P7 TIL All foreign citizens visiting Tibet must be in a tour group and there are no direct international flights from foreign countries to Tibet, except for Nepal, which borders Tibet
nerQb TIL after being shot and stabbed multiple times during his assassination, Alexei Nikolaevich, the heir to the Russian Empire throne, survived until the assassins found precious gems in between his shirt and tunic protecting him.