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TIL Mount Everest is growing by 2.5 inches per year

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E1Jdp TIL the ‘X’ shaped Confederate flag was no more than a battle flag and never the adopted flag of the confederacy.
jNEnR TIL COPS was created in 1989 after the 1988 Writers Guild of America strike negatively impacted the entertainment industry and FOX needed a new material that wouldn't require union writers
MP90 TIL a 2013 poll found Americans view blacks as more racist than whites or Hispanics. Black respondents ranked their own demographic as the most racist.
x66aw TIL that one of the most elite army units in ancient Greece consisted exclusively of gay male couples, making them fight harder because they knew that their partner would likely die as well if they lost the battle
vP1K4 TIL about the “Retail Apocalypse” - the closing of numerous large-chain retail stores worldwide, starting around 2010 and continuing onward.