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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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W8X4 TIL That a batch of crunchy Cheetos at the Frito-Lay factory accidentally didn’t get dusted with cheddar. A Mexican janitor took the botched batch home and added chili powder to them. He then pitched this recipe to the CEO. Thus, Flamin’ Hot Cheetos were born.
P19kn TIL that Samaritanism is a small Abrahamic religion that only had 820 followers as of 2019
R7A49 TIL "Peter The Great" was succeeded by his wife Catherine because he had his only son tortured to death
ADe1o TIL Tobacco companies in India literally target kids by placing adverts at their eye level, not adults.
kOAGg TIL about the "Cat Telephone". In 1929, Princeton researchers opened a cat's skull and connected the auditory nerve to a telephone. When one researcher spoke in the cat’s ear, the other could hear it through the receiver 50 feet away. The experiment ultimately became the basis for cochlear implants.