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TIL in 2006 a group of climbers reached the top of Britain’s highest mountain and found a piano

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a8Yxo TIL Malabar giant squirrels can measure up to three feet or almost one metre from head to tail
KOpNE TIL after the release of the film "It's a Wonderful Life", the FBI released a memo warning the American public of it's "communistic messages"
OGjA7 TIL about Saint Marina the Monk, a 6th century woman who disguised herself as a male Monk to avoid marriage. Another woman falsely claimed her child belonged to Marina, believing she was a man, but Marina raised the child anyway. The truth of her real gender wasn't discovered until her death.
E1kjW TIL on 1529, Hernán Cortés received the Marquessate of the Valley of Oaxaca as a fief in Mexico
6Ej4w TIL that every baseball used in MLB is conditioned with a specific “baseball rubbing mud”, which has been provided by one family for 3 generations.