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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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Mpa0 TIL The night before the Olympic final, Michael Jordan apparently spent the night drinking and gambling all night, then he went on a long day of press appearances, plus 18 holes of golf in Barcelona, before he went on to lead Team USA in a gold-medal winning victory over Croatia.
gDX4 TIL the highest-ranking death metal album of all time on the Billboard 200 is Dethalbum III by the virtual band Dethklok from Adult Swim’s Metalocalpyse.
gNdL TIL - Thomas Edison considered sleep a waste of time and got 3-4 hours per night. In contrast, Albert Einstein claimed to need 10 hours and Calvin Coolidge, while president, demanded 11!
QJO6d TIL Elvis Presley Never Wrote Any of His Own Songs despite being one of the most recognizable musicians of all time.
xV1Mw TIL the Three Gorges Dam in China is so massive it has slowed the rotation of the Earth