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TIL Mount Everest may be the tallest mountain in the world, but Mount Chimborazo in Ecuador is the furthest away from the centre of the earth

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WdJd TIL That after Germany invaded Greece in 1941, a German officer climbed up the Acropolis and ordered the soldier on guard there to surrender and replace the Greek flag with the swastika. Instead, the soldier named Konstantinos Koukidis, wrapped himself in the Greek flag and jumped to his death.
dD0xB TIL each time you recall a memory, it becomes distorted and less accurate.
yeg8 TIL That an actress from HBO’s “The Wire”, who played a member of a high level drug organization, was arrested in real life after the show for being a member of a high level drug organization
gMxrW TIL in 2017, a Norwegian newspaper called biathlon expert Ola Lunde (a very common name in Norway) to ask his opinion on the national team coach. It made headlines when Lunde rashly said the coach wasn't good enough and had to be fired. The only problem was that this Ola Lunde was an ordinary fan.
GA4oN TIL that even though spittoons became far less common in the modern era, every justice in the US Supreme Court is provided with a personal spittoon, though the last time a spittoon was recorded as being used as intended was in the early 20th century.