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TIL this was the second video played upon MTV’s debut. ????

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KO8j4 TIL more people have been to the moon than the deepest part of the ocean: the Mariana Trench. Only three people ever went there: two scientists aboard the Trieste in 1960, and film director James Cameron in 2012
wEl7 TIL a man rode his bike from Sweden to Mount Everest, and then tried to summit. He turned around 300 feet from the top.
7rPVp TIL that a man had his Twitter account suspended in 2017 after making a death threat towards a mosquito.
Brx6D TIL that anybody, dead or alive, travelling into France requires a passport. In 1974, The Egyptian government had to issue a passport to Pharaoh, Ramesses II to transport his body to France for restoration. Eerily, his body also received full military honours when it arrived at the Paris airport.
7rXGP TIL US war dogs were designated as expendable equipment and were either euthanized or turned over to an allied army prior to the US departure from South Vietnam.