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TIL that there is 4G mobile coverage on the summit of Mount Everest

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x0OD TIL MTV fired Russell Brand several days after coming to work dressed as Osama bin Laden the day after the 11 September 2001 attacks and bringing his drug dealer to the MTV studios
9YDlm TIL that out at sea, a tsunami is only about a metre high, and could pass a boat without being noticed. As it approaches the shore, it’s the sudden deceleration from about 800km/h to 50km/h which creates the immense wave
VLpp TIL that a French Canadian soldier during WWII single-handedly captured 93 German soldiers and He declined the invitation to be decorated, because according to him General Montgomery (who was giving the award) was “incompetent” and in no position to be giving out medals.
DoxV TIL that during WW2, American scientists debated bombing Japanese volcanoes in order to cause massive lava eruptions
YpL8Z TIL: There are still monuments in Colfax Louisiana memorializing 3 white men killed in the process of slaughtering 180 freed blacks in 1873.