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TIL Brad Pitt’s younger brother, Douglas Pitt, is the first American to have scaled Mount Kilimanjaro and descended on a mountain bike.

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nebyG TIL about walking adventurer Karl Bushby, currently attempting to be the first person to completely walk an unbroken path around the world since 1998
60wl TIL an island, located between Australia and New Caledonia, was charted on maps for over a century until a crew of scientists sailed to the location and found it didn’t exist.
RvY4 TIL: The world’s first electronic digital wristwatch was introduced in 1972 and cost $2,100.00 (about $11,400 today) and by the end of the 70’s digital watches were being sold for $10.00.
6Ebmw TIL actor Joe Manganiello has been Dungeon Maser for a two-year Dungeons & Dragons campaign featuring Vince Vaughn, Tom Morello, D.B. Weiss & David Benioff, James Gunn, WWE's 'The Big Show' and more.
b9BmQ TIL that the oldest discovered wheel was found in Slovenia's Ljubljana Marshes in 2002 and it's approximately 5,150 years old