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

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9YQ7G TIL that the bull mascot from Elmer's Glue and the cow mascot from Borden Dairy products are a canonical couple with four children.
wox86 TIL that in 1965, philosophy professor Hubert Dreyfus, a staunch critic of artificial intelligence, boldly claimed that a machine would never beat a human at the game of chess. It would only be two years before the outspoken scholar was himself checkmated by an MIT-developed computer.
v1Jg7 TIL of a couple who received a $31.5mil settlement after unreported hail damage repair on their car resulted in a collision safety failure, trapping them in an inferno that ended in 4th degree burns. The body shop responsible glued the roof back on instead of welding to OEM specifications.
kOr41 TIL the reason cows are considered too sacred to eat in India is because historically a cow was more valuable there as a source of milk, labor, and dung than it could ever be as meat, so it'd be dumb to eat them. Over time this turned into a cultural taboo.
JJGk TIL Dust from the Sahara Desert travels across the Atlantic Ocean helping fertilize soil in the Amazon rainforest.