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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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xngg TIL when Forrest Gump gets up to talk at the Vietnam rally in Washington, and you cannot hear him, he says, “Sometimes when people go to Vietnam, they go home to their mommas without any legs. Sometimes they don’t go home at all. That’s a bad thing. That’s all I have to say about that.”
DQOnJ TIL that Hisaishi Joe, the composer on Studio Ghibli films, is a stage name that he based off of "Quincy Jones"
Wk6m9 TIL that during World War I, French prostitutes with severe cases of syphilis charged higher rates than uninfected prostitutes, because soldiers infected with syphilis were removed from the front line
mx75P TIL that between 1628 and 1814, the Caribbean island of Tobago changed hands 33 times - it was variously held by the Dutch, the Curonians (a Duchy in modern-day Latvia), the English, the French, the Spanish, and the Swedish
DQQQe TIL that the US stores it's nuclear waste in New Mexico, in a deep geological repository called the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, functional since 1999.