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

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8aJZ8 TIL that there are more stars in the sky than grains of sand on Earth
LkvZP TIL during Mao'great leap campaign in China, starvation was so horrible that people started comitting acts of canabalism which includes eating the death and parents eating their own children.
P1EDe TIL In 2020, the Polish Chancellery of the Prime Minister added the video game "This War of Mine" (based on wartime atrocities in Bosnia during the 90s) to the recommended reading list in Polish high schools. The first initiative in the world to add a video game to recommended readings in school.
0wErj TIL a million people live in Sakha, the coldest inhabited place on Earth, where the temperature can drop as low as -90 degrees
QJD9e TIL the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC was opened by a signal relayed through the Viking I Mars Lander to a remote pair of scissors to cut the ribbon.