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TIL the first Nepalese woman to summit Mt Everest was Pasang Lhamu, in 1993 at age 31. She died on the same day during the descent and became a national icon.

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8e8PG TIL that one of the most prominent Korea Towns is located in a small city in Mexico. A KIA manufacturing plant was built there in 2014, leading thousands of Koreans to migrate over.
j7VQ TIL biologists that have worked with Arctic wolves on Ellesmere Island, Canada over 25 field seasons describe ‘wolves as wimps’ as they are so gentle and caring for each other.
d848 TIL cats may have been domesticated 12,000 years because in the shift from hunter/gatherers to agricultural civ, the influx of mice led to wild cats coming to live near their prey.
LQ1A0 TIL about the Bagheera kiplingi the only mostly herbivorous spider that we know of, It feeds on the nectar of swollen-thorn acacias which the plant makes in a symbiotic relationship with Pseudomyrmex ants
vPV1D TIL Ever since she was 12, Ellen Degeneres' idol has been Dian Fossey after seeing her hold a gorilla in 1970 National Geographic. Fifty years later, Ellen set up the $15 million "Ellen DeGeneres Campus" at Virunga Massif for gorilla conservation and research