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TIL the inside of a cucumber can be 20 degrees cooler than outside - ‘cool as a cucumber’.

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4Xlyo TIL that Frederic I Barbarrosa drowned in a river in Turkey when his army was heading to Jerusalem.
vv8r TIL that Christine Ha is the one and only blind competitor in the history of reality TV cooking shows. She won Masterchef.
kJe5 TIL the Asteroid Belt is the remains of a planet that never formed, and not the leftover debris of a planet that was destroyed.
grLa7 TIL A 15th-century chapel, said to have been visited by Joan of Arc, is in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The chapel was relocated from France to Long Island in 1927. Then in 1966, the chapel was moved to the campus of Marquette University where it remains today.
v1ZW4 TIL that the famous ‘Hillary Step’, a challenging climb near the summit of Mount Everest, collapsed due to an earthquake, and is no longer a feature on the mountain.