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

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9wKXm TIL about Koro, a syndrome in which individuals have an overpowering belief that their sex organs are retracting and will disappear, despite the lack of any true longstanding changes to the genitals. Koro is also known as shrinking penis
LQjrr TIL Confucius's family kept genealogy records for over 2 millennia
mxEPO TIL the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard which is roughly the size of Ireland is an entirely visa-free zone, meaning anyone may live and work on Svalbard indefinitely regardless of country of citizenship
j61kv TIL In certain situations (the conditions of which are still up for debate) warm water has been observed to freeze faster than cold water, as the result of what is known as the Mpemba effect. These observations go far back enough to be traced to claims by ancient philosopher Aristotle.
rNGxy TIL there is an entire college athletic conference composed entirely of Penn State satellite campuses.