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TIL that the death rate of climbing mount K2, the second highest mountain in the world, is 29%.

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7rlpx TIL that Christmas as we know it (family gatherings, seasonal food & drink, games, festive generosity, even saying Merry Christmas), is largely the result of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol. Before 1843 Christmas was associated w/ countryside peasant revelry & disconnected from modern city life.
Ge81 TIL Linkin Parks’ debut album ‘Hybrid Theory’ is the highest selling debut album of the 21st Century.
oRnOR TIL in 1997, a civilian pilot witnessed and reported one of the most widely sighted UFO appearances, the Phoenix Lights. That pilot was actor Kurt Russell, who only learned of the significance of the lights years later when he saw it mentioned on a TV show his wife was watching.
l7vB7 TIL scientists from Newcastle University discovered that honeybees become 'pessimistic' after being shaken vigorously for 60 seconds.
8aBPb TIL newly naturalized US citizens can have their citizenship revoked if they join the Communist party within five years of becoming a citizen