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TIL a man mailed 100 companies asking for free stuff, dubbing it “The $39 Experiment.”

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dD5PB TIL France's last king, Louis XVI (1754-1793) only saw the sea once in his entire life, despite his main residence, Versailles, being than 100 miles from the coast
R51L7 TIL that fruits can be divided into two groups: those that ripen after harvest (called climacteric fruits) and those that don't (non-climacteric). Most berries, citrus, pineapples and watermelons don't ripen after being picked.
v1MVr TIL Reinhold Messner the first climber to ascend all fourteen peaks over 8,000 metres above sea level. And the first ascent of Everest without supplemental oxygen.
78kXM TIL of the "Ice City" dug into a glacier in the Alps during WW1 in the front between Austro-Hungary and Italy.
neOr9 TIL while studying Madagascar periwinkle leaves used as folk remedy for diabetes in the 1950s, scientists found plummeting white blood cells instead and isolated out vinblastine and vincristine — effective chemotherapy drugs which has dramatically improved survival in leukemia patients.