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TIL that although it is only the third highest mountaintop in the world, no mountaineer has ever reached the summit of Kangchenjunga. This is because every ascent has deliberately stopped short of the peak, to honor a promise given to the local inhabitants that the top of the mountain remain intact.

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1gkV TIL that a boy didn’t want to wear a hearing aid because “Super heroes don’t.” To get him to wear it Marvel Comics created a super hero with a hearing aid: “Blue Ear”
loXwG TIL Japan’s capital, Tokyo (or Tokyo Metropolis), has 39 million residents and a $2 Trillion Economy, making it the world’s largest metropolitan Center both by population and by Gross Domestic Product (GDP).
bvX9 TIL In the Bulgarian Balkan is an abandoned socialist monument that looks like a UFO.
JY6vv TIL while he was in prison awaiting his trail (and eventual execution), Saddam Hussen was forced by U.S. Marines to repeatedly watch “South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut,” in which he was portrayed as Satan’s homosexual lover.
ADZAn TIL about Channel Drift which results in a shift from informative, quality programming aimed at educated viewers, toward sensational, ratings-based, and/or reality-TV programming.