› added 6 years ago

263

TIL about Gangkhar Puensum, which is probably the highest mountain no one has ever climbed, since it's located in a country that bans climbing mountains.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

QJ1Wk TIL of the Sook Ching, a systematic purge of Chinese Singaporeans during the Second World War carried out by the Imperial Japanese Kenpeitai. Between 5000-25000 people are estimated to have been killed.
b6xrQ TIL that despite being in service for 25 years, the F22 has only scored 3 air-to-air kills, the first of which was a Chinese balloon in 2023.
gMwa7 TIL owning an electric car in Norway grants you free public parking, free ferry rides and the right to drive in bus lanes.
x61a5 TIL that while the song Hurt So Good by John Mellencamp never reached number one in the US, it spent more weeks in the top 10 than any other charting single during the 1980s.
aM6A TIL the word for “roller coasters” in Russian translates to “American Mountains.”