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TIL When the original people measured Mt. Everest, they added 2 ft. on it because they didn’t think people would believe it was exactly 29,000 ft.

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WXjo TIL to prevent his wingman from ejecting from his damaged F-4 Phantom during Vietnam Captain Bob Pardo pushed his wingmans planes tailhook with his plane until they were out of North Vietnam.
wxdP TIL India has 29 languages with at least one million native speakers each
VB0Wp TIL about Georges Ruggiu. A Belgian civil servant, who at 35 moved to Rwanda, become a radio presenter for the ruling party (despite not speaking the native language) and demonised the Tutsis, which ended in their genocide.
Y7J1x TIL: That autographs of The Beatles were once left in cupboard for decades. The Beatles signed their monikers on a scrap of paper at a small gig in Shropshire on 19 January 1963. The Shropshire gig came just over a week after the Fab Four released their first big hit, the single Please Please Me.
E1A10 TIL Gold's yellow color and inertness are explained by Einstein’s theory of relativity. Gold's electrons travel so close to the speed of light that relativity contracts some of their orbits. This shrinks an energy gap so it absorbs blue light, and makes the outer electron less reactive.