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TIL the person Douglas Adams described in his book as the “worst poet in the universe” actually exists.

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epkln TIL: Henriette d'Angeville was the first woman who climbed the MontBlanc unaided. She had to design her own climbing clothes. She took with her 18 bottles of wine and 26 roasted chickens. At the top she was lifted by her guides so that she 'had gone higher than any man before her'.
Vlak TIL there is an antidote for alcohol intoxication that never made it to the market
gMwy8 TIL There is a city in the U.K that had a problem with "street drinkers" eating it's pigeons.
QNKbk TIL Brad Warner wrote his story on suicide and why he chose not to end his life. Today he saved my life, he’s the reason I’m still here.
8akoP TIL that, in March 2001, while on a trip in Kenya, the pilot of an airplane with Rowan Atkinson in it fainted, so Atkinson took control and flew it, until the pilot recovered