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TIL the name of the stretchy glue that holds new credit cards to the paper is called Fugitive Glue.

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jN7Ya TIL in 1990 43 out of the 45 climbers attempting Lenin Peak were buried in an avalanche. The two survivors could hear their comrades shouting for help hours after the slide, but failed in any attempts to rescue them as the ice set like concrete immediately
8eR1a TIL about the zero Euro note, used as a souvenir banknote with authorized printing by the European Central Bank. The Georgian ones features Stalin.
WkPJ4 TIL that for three months a man named Kasongo Ilunga was the Democratic Republic of the Congo's Minister of Trade and vice president of the UNAFEC Party despite, apparently, not actually existing.
Z8YbQ TIL according to studies,an estimate of 1 million fathers in the U.S. are unknowingly raising another man's child.
MNXb TIL in June 2006 a Google Earth user discovered a very detailed 1:500 scale terrain model of a disputed border region with India near a Chinese military complex, it’s 3,000 × 2,300 ft large