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TIL that the mountain K2 (the 2nd highest in the world) was named such as a placeholder, literally "the 2nd peak in the Karakoram mountain range". it stuck because the mountain is so remote that no one else had given it a name.

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AMod TIL: Ecosia is a search engine that uses the same results as Google, only that 80% of it’s revenue goes to a tree farming company in Brazil. Every search you do plants about one tree.
gJAb TIL that China has a limit of 34 Hollywood movies imported per year. This is why movie directors try to protagonise China in their movies to try and get their movie into one of the 34 (eg The Martian where China helps NASA).
OoRX4 TIL that a 1965 test subject survived a leaky suit in a vacuum chamber but felt water on his tongue begin to boil.
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Za1o TIL That Mao ordered the Chinese to eradicate mosquitos, rats, flies, and sparrows. Because the sparrows ate seeds, he felt they were eating unearned food, thus, they represented Capitalism. They killed so many sparrows the Eco imbalance contributed to a famine that killed 20 million people.