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TIL Mount Everest is growing by 2.5 inches per year

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JYaaB TIL Hawaii is the only U.S. state where the recorded temperature has never reached 100F (38C)
l7GmB TIL “Jingle Bells” was originally written to be a Thanksgiving song.
OogJe TIL that in the 1940s President Johnson,at the time a Congressman, used to drive around with a snake in his trunk because he believed black people were scared of snakes. He used to go to fuel stations get served by black guys and make them open the trunk and he was almost beaten with a tire iron
4Xwja TIL that several former Nazis, including Adolf Heusinger, who served as acting Chief of Staff of the Army for Nazi Germany, and Johannes Steinhoff, who was one of the highest scoring Luftwaffe pilots, took high level positions within NATO after World War II.
nBlB TIL of Terry Ryan, a 13 year old Australian schoolboy who was kidnapped along with his friend Peter Aston by two strangers in 1982. Ryan only survived by helping in the assault, live burial and eventual murder of his friend. His kidnappers then dropped him home.