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TIL that while on a trip to Moscow, someone stole and attempted to ransom the costumes from the popular Australian kids TV show “Bananas in Pyjamas.”

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a8rb0 TIL A man in India carved a 110 meter-long (360 ft), 9.1 meter-wide (30 ft) and 7.7 meter-deep (25 ft) path through a ridge of hills using only a hammer and a chisel. After 22 years of work, he shortened travel distance from 34 miles to 9 miles.
v1GX8 TIL that Mount Everest's Peak XV was calculated to be exactly 29,000 ft, but was publicly declared to be 29,002 ft in order to avoid the impression that an exact height of 29,000 ft was nothing more than a rounded estimate.
wLOaY TIL one of the origin theories of the modern military salute comes from France. Knights were thought to greet one another in respect by lifting their visor with their free hand to reveal their face. The hand gesture of lifting the visor being similar to the "salute" hand gesture we do today.
6XeY TIL McDonald’s feeds 68 million people per day, that’s about 1 percent of the world’s population
KNAJ TIL that Ernest Hemingway lived through anthrax, malaria, pneumonia, dysentery, skin cancer, hepatitis, anemia, diabetes, high blood pressure, two plane crashes, a ruptured kidney, a ruptured spleen, a ruptured liver, a crushed vertebra, and a fractured skull.