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TIL Mt. Everest grows by about 2 cm every year.

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w9W6 TIL of Jeanette Rankin, the first female member of congress and the only person to vote “Nay” to go to war with Japan in ‘41. Many requested she change her vote but she refused. After the vote, an angry mob followed her from the Capitol building, forcing her to take refuge in a telephone booth.
p8exQ TIL If the Planck length is the smallest possible thing, and the observable universe is the largest possible thing, then an object which would roughly sit in the middle of these two sizes would strangely be.... an adult human body.
kAR1 TIL in 1998, a woman disappeared while awaiting trial after she had drunkenly killed a woman in a fatal car crash. In 2013, she was arrested in Manitoba, Canada after bragging in a bar about having gotten away with the crime.
1aGE7 TIL Cap’n Crunch once gave a free prize whistle that blew a 2600 Hz tone - so if you dialed a long distance phone number and blew the whistle, it gave you free long distance calls.
x9jg TIL that the creator of the viral online hit series Bad Lip Reading discovered his talent when his mother went suddenly deaf and had to learn to lip read. He realized that whenever he tried, all he came up with was jibberish. He soon turned his failure into successful videos seen by millions.