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TIL that the grippy texture on metal tools is called Knurling

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YpYRd TIL of Maurice Herzog, the french mountaineer who summited Annapurna 1 first in 1950, the deadliest 8000 meter mountain with a 32% death rate. Not only was this the first 8000 meter peak summited, but also the only 8000 meter peak conquered on its first attempt.
0w7w1 TIL that if you were to visit the southernmost part of Canada, you would be south of 13 U.S. states and parts of California, Nevada, and Utah
9wPZD TIL Carlos Santana hears from angels since reading a book about them from a Milwaukee airport. Since 1994, the high-angel Metatron speaks through him ("like a fax machine") & convinced him to make an album. This became the Grammy-sweeping "Supernatural"— which includes "Smooth [ft. Rob Thomas]"
MegL8 TIL during the tornado outbreak of 1974, forecasters in Indiana, frustrated because they could not keep up with all of the simultaneous tornado activity, put the entire state under a blanket tornado warning. This was the only time in U.S. history that an entire state was under a tornado warning.
MNB0 TIL that if parents cleaned a dropped pacifier by sucking on it themselves before giving it back to their baby the child “had nearly 60 percent less eczema and 90 percent less asthma by 18 months compared to parents who used tap or boiling water.”