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TIL The Guinness official recently awarded Guinness World Records Certificate to YouTube ’s oldest game YouTuber. The old lady from Japan is named Hamako Mori. The grandmother has been playing games for 39 years.

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M7kQK TIL virtually all the major obstacles on K2's standard route had been overcome as early as 1939, and it might have been climbed then had storms and miscommunication not caused disaster instead.
m1WRY TIL in order to end the My Lai Massacre, Hugh Thompson Jr. landed his helicopter between civilians and advancing American troops, ordering his own men to fire on any troops that would attack civilians. He was condemned and ostracized by the US military, government, and public.
6E7Y7 TIL That Gert Fröbe, the actor who played Goldfinger in the eponymous Bond film, saved two Jews during World War 2. He was a former Nazi Party member, and Israel banned his films after this became known. But when one of the Jews he saved spoke up for him, they rescinded the ban.
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yVWv8 TIL that the top mathematics student at Cambridge University is known as the Senior Wrangler. In 1880 J. J. Thomson was so confident he was #1 that he sent his servant to find out how others had ranked. When Thomson asked "Who was Second Wrangler?", he was told "You were, sir"; Joseph Larmor was #1.