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TIL: Mt. Everest came out to exactly 29,000 feet, but they made it 29,002 because they thought people wouldn’t believe the actual number was real and would assume it was rounded.

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YlNG TIL on a by weight basis, there is more gold in a smartphone than there is in gold ore. It takes a ton of ore to get 1g of gold. But you can get the same amount from recycling the materials in 41 mobile phones.
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Z86wv TIL about Hannah Sabata, a 19 year old Nebraska woman who stole $6000 from a bank in 2012. After the crime she immediately posted a video to YouTube titled "Chick Bank Robber" where she held bundles of cash up to the camera and bragged about what she'd done. She was caught the same day.