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aMmZ TIL that in 2011, two men para-glided from the summit of Mt. Everest, arriving at a village in 42min and avoiding the dangerous conventional 3 day descent.
gR5b TIL the Italian words widely used in New Jersey differ greatly from mainstream Italian today not because of bad “copying” but because the words came from people speaking an Italian dialect that subsequently died out in Italy
GY9L5 TIL the Queen had watched The Crown and was reported to have enjoyed the series, although she found some of the events depicted to be too dramatic.
kEJE TIL of Margaret Abbott, a woman who competed in and won a golf tournament in Paris. After her death, it was discovered that this tournament was part of the poorly-organized 1900 Olympics. She never knew she was an Olympian.
yQyma TIL interstate 70 in Colorado has a mile marker 419.99 since the 420 mile marker kept being stolen.