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

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w958 TIL sporting goods company Wilson was started in 1913 as a way to use animal by-products from New York slaughterhouses. Its first products were strings for tennis rackets and violins
9wKDX TIL in 1958 a military plane accidentally dropped an Atom Bomb on a farm near Florence, South Carolina. The nuclear reaction didn't occur, but there was still enough explosive to create a 25 foot crater!
xevg TIL The “Do Nothing Congress” that Truman ran against passed 802 more bills than the current congress.
VVDG TIL despite maxing out at 2 grams apiece, krill are the most abundant life on earth (by weight)
165gr TIL ancient geographers knew that Earth was a sphere but there was intense debate on the question if the opposite side of the planet is also inhabited by humans (called Antipodeans). Most thought that Antipodeans do not exist because intense heat at the equator forms an impassable barrier.