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TIL Gangkhar Puensum; the tallest unclimbed mountain in the world, will likely never be climbed due to a ban on mountaineering in Bhutan 🇧🇹

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OY74 TIL that the spider that bites Tobey Magquire in ‘Spider-Man’ was chosen after a “spider Olympics,” and was then painted with body paint when time didn’t allow for a spider costume to be created
OoGPg TIL: On Dec. 25th, 1914, the first year of WW1 - Germans v British - Both sides crawled out of their trenches and met half way to play an innocent Christmas game of football/soccer as a display of truce. Germans beat the British 3-2 before resuming fighting the next day.
9Y7LX TIL of two neighbor galaxies nicknamed "Akira" and "Tetsuo". Akira is a 'red geyser': a galaxy that has stopped making stars because its massive black hole is stealing gas from a nearby galaxy, Tetsuo, leading to friction and temperatures that prevent gas from clumping together (1million+ degrees)
pDZ4 TIL that the United States and New Zealand are the only countries on earth which allow pharmaceutical companies to advertise to the public.
mNGx TIL billionaire J. Paul Getty refused to pay $17m ransom for his kidnapped Grandson. When the teenager’s severed ear arrived, he agreed $3m but only paid $2.2m… the maximum that would be tax deductable. He lent the other $800k to his son on the condition that he pay it back with 4% interest.