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TIL someone skied down Mt. Everest

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69m0W TIL that the site for modern-day Vatican City was originally a circus for Roman Emperor Nero called Circus of Nero.
nW8Q9 TIL that in California, if you order a cold sandwich and declare it "to go", it's not taxed. If you say it's "For here" you get taxed.
e0GJE TIL that Pop Its were invented by a former classmate of Anne Frank, inspired by imagining "a large field of breasts, that you can push the nipple" from one side to the other
4XmNX TIL in 1781, 142 slaves were thrown overboard from a slave ship. The crew claimed they were low on drinking water and had killed the slaves to save it-this claim was disputed. The slaves had been insured. The case brought major attention to abolition.
QNlp TIL in 2007 listeners of BBC Radio 2 ranked Queen as the ‘top British band’ of all time, better than The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, and The Rolling Stones