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TIL someone skied down Mt. Everest

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8Oo8 TIL of Mark DeFriest. Believed to be an autistic savant, DeFreist was sentenced to four years in prison for ‘stealing’ tools left to him in his father’s will in 1979. Able to to memorize and reproduce jailers’ keys simply by looking at them, he’s been imprisoned 36 years due to multiple escapes.
ADWM4 TIL that many decorative glass crystal products (e.g. decanters, wine glasses, etc.) contain lead at significant enough levels that liquids stored in them for more than a few hours are no longer safe to drink (or any length of time for children).
GVwE TIL there’s a word for the smell of earth after rain… ‘Petrichor’
gbb4 TIL of the “Tiffany Problem”. Tiffany is a medieval name—short for Theophania—from the 12th century. Authors can’t use it in historical or fantasy fiction, however, because the name looks too modern. This is an example of how reality is sometimes too unrealistic.
Vb00 TIL that by 2050, there will be more plastic than fish in the world’s oceans