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TIL Ibex can climb near-vertical surfaces with ease

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8rjV TIL The population of Washington D.C. goes up 79% every workday. The next city on the list (Boston, MA) only increases by 40%.
daN8 TIL that Kellogg’s corn flakes were actually created to help control sexual urges
v1oEK TIL that during the 1962 missile crisis, the all-out nuclear war was prevented by a single man: Vasily Arkhipov
69MwY TIL there are active termite colonies in South Africa as old as 34,000 years. There were still sabertooth tigers roaming the earth when these mounds were started.
e0dYb TIL about Ellsworth & Emery Kolb, brothers from the early 1900's who "dangled from ropes, clung to sheer cliff walls by their fingertips, climbed inaccessible summits", and defied death to photograph the Grand Canyon