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TIL Cold War defense computers had ashtrays

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VMbyG TIL Yūichirō Miura became the first person to ski on Mount Everest on May 6, 1970. He descended nearly 4,200 vertical feet from the South Col (elevation over 26,000 ft). This feat was documented in 1975, in the film The Man Who Skied Down Everest. The film won the Academy Award for best documentary
6EbnJ TIL Canada made an actual flying saucer during the cold war
pDpO TIL Aldous Huxley, CS Lewis and JFK all died on the same day.
P1kEL TIL the gourd was one of the world's first cultivated plants grown not primarily for food, but for use as containers. It is also used as a resonator on many stringed instruments, including the sitar
wPdW TIL that the Gilligan’s Island cast members were patterned after the 7 deadly sins. But Sherwood Schwartz, the creator, didn’t admit it until years later in book he wrote about the show.