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TIL Dick Bass, the first person to scale the seven summits, was on a flight when he deluged his seatmate for hours with details of his treks on all seven continents. Before they landed, he realized he hadn't asked his new friend anything about himself. "That's OK," the man said, "I'm Neil Armstrong"

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VBn60 TIL about the R9X variant of the Hellfire missile that has no warhead, but instead uses six pop out blades to cause fatal damage to its target.
5eZB TIL that not only can you “square” a number, you can also “triangle” a number.
LVb0 TIL there is a punctuation mark that exists for the purpose of expressing irony.
M5P7 TIL Visitors entering the Catacombs of Paris are greeted with the chilling message Arrête, c’est ici l’empire de la mort (Halt! This is the empire of the dead!).
JD8 TIL that in the movie Independence Day, the filmmakers added audio from Jurassic Park, in post production, because they liked when Jeff Goldblum said “Must go faster! Must go faster”.