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9YKNQ TIL: Sir George Everest did not want Mount Everest named after him. He objected that his surname could not be written in the Hindi language and that it was difficult for the locals to pronounce.
GY8DE TIL about the wind phone (Kaze no Denwa), a telephone booth in Ōtsuchi, Iwate Prefecture, Japan, where visitors can hold one-way conversations with deceased loved ones as a way to process their grief.
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