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TIL “Spicy” is a form of pain, not taste

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Dwwr TIL that in 2011, two men para-glided from the summit of Mt. Everest, arriving at a village in 42min and avoiding the dangerous conventional 3 day descent.
kJaYE TIL that the meme 'Directed by Robert B. Weide", and the music was from "Curb Your Enthusiasm". I finished watching Seinfeld and started watching "Curb Your Enthusiasm".
mW7P TIL that Norway, Sweden, and Finland together are NOT Scandinavia, but are Fennoscandia; Scandinavia actually comprises Norway, Sweden, and Denmark, NOT Finland
xGdw TIL of Miniatur Wunderland, the largest, most complex and most expensive model train set in the world.
Bywd TIL when JAL Flight 2 landed in San Francisco Bay short of the runway, captain Kohei Asoh told investigators, “As you Americans say, I fucked up.” Today the “Asoh defense” is hailed by corporate strategists as one of the most effective public relations strategies.