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TIL Mt Everest is in Nepal and China with the peak on the border.

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1QbX TIL: Thousands of lions are being bred on farms to be shot by wealthy foreign trophy-hunters.
Bg0Kd TIL Levi Stubbs (of the motown group Four Tops) voiced Mother Brain in the 1989 TV series Captain N: The Game Master.
Y7Mbr TIL: Recent data reveals that minority-owned businesses receive rejection rates are three times higher than white founders for loans - even with identical business models.
loppa TIL when all remaining California condors were captured to ensure their survival, they were de-loused. In doing so, conservationists killed all remaining individuals of a species of louse (Colpocephalum californici) that lived exclusively on the California condor, inadvertantly causing an extinction
mjQv TIL: After batman and robin rescued it from a slaughterhouse, DC comics included a bat-cow