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TIL Mount Everest is growing by 2.5 inches per year

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b9Y09 TIL before becoming an iconic thriller, Stephen King's first novel "Carrie" was rejected by 30 publishers, causing him to give up and throw it in the trash. His wife retrieved it and urged him to resubmit it.
QJWvM TIL That Jack Daniel's HQ is in a dry county so their product is not available for purchase in the area. Also TIL: US has dry counties.
JYLl1 TIL about the world's roundest object intended for re-defining exactly one kilogram by counting the number of silicon-28 atoms that forms it and redefining the Avogadro's number
NXxGQ TIL of the Bengal Water Machine, a water capture mechanism resulting from the pumping of shallow subsurface water by millions of individual small landholders.
AnVw TIL that Han’s full name in the Fast and Furious series was “Han Seoul-Oh”