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TIL Forty of the world's fifty tallest mountain peaks are in Pakistan.

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VMKwm TIL Nearly half of the United States GDP comes from just 5 states: CA, TX, NY, FL, and IL. California is by far the largest contributor at 1/3 of that, or nearly 15% of total US GDP.
Egrvw TIL After a Japanese balloon bomb knocked out power to the Manhattan Project's Hanford nuclear site in WW2 the plan for stopping the next balloon was to fly up in a plane and throw bricks at it.
7rEKO TIL Parshvanatha, from 8th century BC, was the earliest exponent of Karma philosophy in recorded history. Parshvanatha was born with blue-black skin. A strong, handsome boy, he played with the gods of water, hills and trees
OJkg TIL the Soviet Union had a water computer created in 1928 that was used until the 1980s.
leyA TIL the Catholic Church has an official position on Jesus’ blood type. It’s AB.