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TIL that the 188 tallest mountains in the world are in Asia. Aconcagua in Argentina is the 189th tallest.

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8axMG TIL During WWII, there was a unit of Japanese schoolgirls who looked after Kamikaze pilots before they went on suicide missions. Called the Nadeshiko, they were aged between 14-15 and lived and worked on a military base with the men, preparing meals and befriending them before they went to die.
6aWW TIL having no friends can be just as deadly as smoking.
GAwlg TIL almost every third West Virginian is depressed - 29% (compared to 11.4% in Hawaii and 15.3% in California)
PYdPE TIL A decade before the Internet went mainstream, French citizens were interacting via Minitel, a computer network open to anyone with a telephone
vPaA4 Til In 1181, Chinese and Japanese astronomers recorded a “guest star” in their night sky. It is one of the earliest descriptions consistent with a supernova