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TIL you can pay $80,000 to be guided to the top of Mount Everest, even if you have no climbing experience at all.

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m1dKO TIL Interior Secretary James Watts banned the Beach Boys from playing on the National Mall, Watt said "hard rock" music "brought the wrong element" citing drug and alcohol use. Instead, Watt invited longtime Las Vegas star Wayne Newton to provide a more 'patriotic, family-based entertainment.'
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