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TIL Pakistan has the highest number of glaciers in the world, outside of the polar regions.

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gM9wb TIL because the producers of The Lord of the Rings had difficulty finding men with horseback riding experience to play the extra soldiers, many of the "Riders of Rohan" were actually women.
4195 TIL that surgeon Robert J. White transplanted the head of a monkey onto the body of another monkey, the monkey could still hear, smell, taste, eat and follow objects with its eyes and lived for nine days.
4Xlyo TIL that Frederic I Barbarrosa drowned in a river in Turkey when his army was heading to Jerusalem.
grjE7 TIL the Ron Howard film “Hillbilly Elegy” starring Glenn Close and Amy Adams is based on a memoir written by JD Vance, who is now Vice-President of the USA.
l69V TIL, during a 1998 renovation of Benjamin Franklin’s house, the bones of 10 people (6 of them children) were found in a windowless room in the basement.