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TIL that although the Everest is the mountain with the most dead mountaineers, it isn't considered as deadly as other mountains, with a higher fatality rate

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KAr4 TIL the first thing sold on the Internet (‘94) was a pizza from Pizza Hut
WkWl8 TIL Despite being land locked countries, a Czech-Austrian inventor was the first to use a screw type propeller to power a ship. His ship, Civetta of 48 gross register tons, reached a speed of about 6 knots (11 km/h). This was the first ship successfully driven by an Archimedes screw-type propeller.
loKDB TIL that research shows that your earphones are indeed spontaneously knotting themselves. A string of lenght 0.5m-1.5m has a 50 percent chance of knoting in a confined space, meaning earbuds with the 'Y' shape chord have atleast as much or a even higher chance depending on lenght and agitation.
NXG5M TIL that Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson was informed of Osama Bin Laden’s death before the rest of th world found out. Johnson also made a tweet where he stated that he was proud to be an American, 45 minutes before Bin Laden’s death was announced by the White House.
1L18 TIL that notorious serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer was not executed via capital punishment, but rather beaten to death in prison by a fellow inmate.