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

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QJGk TIL the Dalek voice in Doctor Who (2005) is recorded through a custom analog ring modulator; the BBC were unable to reproduce the original effect digitally.
R7PE6 TIL that Pablo Escobar called off a hit on a man who had fatally shot a member of the Medellin Cartel when he found out that the shooter, Gianni Russo, had starred in The Godfather.
xnEB TIL Chef Anthony Bourdain had a kitchen knife custom-forged from a Meteorite
v1WD7 TIL the turning point that pushed Boston to dig under its streets and open America’s first subway on September 1, 1897, was Frank Sprague’s invention, the Dynamo Electric Machine.
EXlo TIL Lee Harvey Oswald still owes an overdue book – The Shark and the Sardines by Juan José Arévalo – to Dallas public library.