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TIL only about 200 people had summited Mount Everest by 1987, whereas by 2013 it had been summited 6,871 times by 4,042 different people.

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XE5Rk TIL that bees dance to each other in the hive to tell each other where to find good pollen. The angle of the dance is the angle relative to the sun, the tempo of dance is the distance, the duration of dance is the quality of the pollen, and the dancer hands out free samples to whoever’s watching!
AKVx TIL of a town in Kazakhstan, residents of which suffer from an unkown anomaly: they fall asleep in broad daylight and suffer from hallucinations, dizziness, weakness and memory loss. Scientists call is a ‘sleep epidemic’ and can’t explain the reasons for this phenomenon.
mJwE TIL: In 1989, Trump paid $85,000 for an ad pushing death penalty for 14 year old boy who was later exonerated of the crime. Even though proven innocent through DNA testing, Trump still refuses to apologize
WkEr4 TIL Manchester United's academy dressing room has a picture of Leo Messi cleaning his own boots to make sure the young players understand the importance of humility
6EWBW TIL that in 1893, New Zealand became the first self-governing colony in the world in which all women are given the right to vote.