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

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Gnj TIL that “Jupiter is the solar system’s vacuum cleaner, pulling in meteors and comets. Scientists estimate that if it was not for this amazing fact, the number of these objects hitting earth would be about ten thousand times greater.”
9YaWm TIL about Chris McCandless, AKA Alexander Supertramp, an intelligent young man who left his wealthy family to hitchhike after graduating college, donating his entire $25,000 in savings, and eventually ended up being found decomposing in a bus alone in Alaska
RRQ1 TIL the United States and New Zealand are the only countries that allow direct-to-consumer advertisement of pharmaceuticals
R7bN4 TIL if you develop an aversion to a food you previously loved but vomited up even just one time after eating, that is called the Garcia Effect. This happens even if you know getting sick had nothing to do with the food you ate and instead was due to a virus.
eXAg TIL Canada’s most southern point is below the most northern points of 27 U.S. states including California