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TIL The tip of Mt Everest isn’t the highest point on Earth

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4ba TIL there is no such thing as canola, and the name canola comes from Canadian Oil Low Acid.
Rwy8 TIL that Black Ivory Coffee, the most expensive coffee in the world, is made by feeding coffee beans to elephants then picking the beans out of their droppings. The fermentation process inside the elephant is said to help remove the coffee’s bitterness.
Yjbd TIL that “Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life” had its US premiere in Yonkers, NY to an audience of high school students, and a bunch of them got offended and walked out.
GAYo4 TIL The Philippines consists of about 7,640 islands
6bpZ TIL that the Pentagon alone has never been audited, leaving roughly $8.5 trillion in taxpayer dollars unaccounted for since 1996.