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TIL the tallest known mountain in the solar system is on an asteroid.

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vQ5K TIL Sushi doesn’t refer to the fish or the nori wrapping, but rather the vinegared rice, which is considered the most important component and backbone of sushi.
b91J4 TIL: Forrest Fenn hid a box filled with millions in treasure among the Rocky Mountains and was found last month after 10 years of searching.
6E7W TIL: Irena Sendler, a woman who saved 2,500 Polish Jews from the Holocaust was beat out for a Nobel Peace Prize in 2007 for Al Gore and global warming.
QNKXd TIL that in Japan there is a group of prominent female housewife stock traders known as Mrs. Watanabe who are so proficient at what they do that many traders look to them for reference on which stocks are doing well.
rQ71 TIL that two people have won the 1 million dollar prize on “Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader?” – a superintendent from Georgia and the winner of the 2006 Nobel Prize in Physics.