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TIL no one has ever summited K2 in Winter, making it one of the greatest mountaineering firsts that is still up for grabs

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rR5DW TIL that the "Hokey Pokey" (You put your right arm in...) song is hundreds of years old, with dance and lyric origins that go back to the 17th century.
pYAb8 TIL China has only navel and air force headquarters but not an army headquarter until 2015
R5dBj TIL that modern nuclear submarines are so well camouflaged that in 2009, two French and British nuclear ballistic missile submarines collided by chance in the Atlantic Ocean. They were moving so slowly that they couldn't have detected each other just a few feet apart.
Q959 TIL a man bought a house for $10k, and found an Action Comics #1 with the first appearance of Superman stuffed inside a wall. Showing it to an in-law, she tried to take it, tearing the cover.
K70a TIL that Elvis Presley wanted to record “I will always love you”, but Dolly Parton turned him down because she refused to give up half the publishing rights.