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TIL Sir Edmund Hillary, the first man to summit Mount Everest, traveled to the North Pole in 1985 with Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon. Hillary thus became the first man to complete the 3 Pole Challenge (North, South, Everest)

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xVbpw TIL the Sony Walkman launched on July 1, 1979 for $150 & to this date has sold 400 million units with 200 million being cassette players
ne1EY TIL that Jason Paige, the singer of the original Pokémon Theme, didn't expect the song to become popular and knew nothing about the franchise when he recorded it. He considers the song to be a relatively minor part of his career, as he has worked with Michael Jackson, Billy Joel, and Frankie Valli.
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v1m6R TIL OF Charles MCGEE a retired American fighter pilot who saw combat missions in World War II, Korean War, & Vietnam making him one of the longest active duty air force pilots in history(spanning 30 years). He is also one of the last living tuskegee airmen
R7K04 TIL that if Antarctica were a country it would be the second largest in the world, significantly bigger than #3 Canada