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TIL there are 20 mountains over 23,000 ft in the world that have never been climbed.

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Yr9x TIL Chairman Mao told the Japanese PM in 1972 not to apologise for what Japan did in WW2 because they destroyed the Nationalists and helped them come to power.
d8RmB TIL in the original opening sequence of “The Simpsons”, Maggie is rung up at a price of $847.63, which represented the monthly cost of raising a child at the time.
R77Q7 Most of the food weight and water retention disappears in time.
KyNQ TIL when John F. Kennedy met Joseph Luns, the former Dutch Minister of Foreign Affairs, Kennedy asked for his hobbies and he answered: “I fok horses”, Kennedy, struck with surprise responded: “Pardon?”, Luns replied: “Yes, paarden!”. ‘Fokken’ means 'to breed’, and 'horses’ means 'paarden’ in Dutch
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