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TIL of Didier Delsalle who is the only person to have landed a helicopter on the summit of Mount Everest.

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690rJ TIL The music from the toothless dancing meme is from the Pokémon white game.
6MNY TIL CostCo sells a pallet of food for a family of four to live off of for 1 year.
Og7X TIL scientists discovered a way to make diamonds from tequila.
gr5lW TIL about Project 100,000, a controversial 1960s program by the United States Department of Defense (DoD) to recruit soldiers who would previously have been below military mental or medical standards.
5V94p Today I learned that the Pokemon anime was banned in Turkey in 2000 when a 7-year-old girl jumped off a fifth-story balcony, pretending to be a Pokemon, and ended up breaking her leg.