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TIL that there is an Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS)

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J1rlj TIL that since 2003, of the seven sumo wrestlers to achieve the highest possible rank of Yokozuna, all but one were originally from Mongolia.
5V1nB TIL that more than 1,600 people are recorded to have died from falling off the Great Pyramids of Giza in the last 200 years
xVLA5 TIL The tallest cliffs in the solar system are located on Miranda, a moon of Uranus. At 20km high, it would take a freefalling person 12 minutes to reach the bottom, by which time they would have accelerated to 200km/h.
b64k4 TIL The Stones covered “Route 66”
pY7NO TIL about Leon Whiteley, a 26-year-old British man who cycled eastward from Portugal to China. 176 days in, at a teahouse in Kazakhstan, he met Noel Kegel -- an 27-year-old American man who was making a similar journey west