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Gyw5 TIL Tenzing Norgay left some chocolate at the top of Mt Everest when he climbed with Edmund Hillary. The chocolate was just eaten by some vandals in 2012.
WgPN TIL that one of the Vatican’s own astronomers, and the curator of of the Vatican’s meteorite collection, dismisses creationism as “…a kind of paganism”.
a8AAy TIL there was an Irish business called the “Swastika Laundry” founded in 1912 that kept its name and logo until 1987
yYGw TIL the first animal to ask an existential question was from a parrot named Alex. He asked what color he was, and learned that it was “grey”.
KYNd6 TIL that ~8 billion people are estimated to have latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI), meaning they carry the Mycobacterium tuberculosis bacteria without exhibiting active disease symptoms (~25% of the worlds population)