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TIL that due to its remoteness and virtually constant dense cloud cover, Brazil's tallest mountain - Neblina Peak - remained undiscovered until the 1950s.

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6JkZ TIL that James May of Top Gear/Grand Tour fame not only bested Gordon Ramsay in a ‘test of man’ competition (which ended with the two eating rotten shark) but beat him in culinary competition while drunk on white wine.
wxK6 TIL Christoph Waltz received a total of 15 nominations for his roles in Inglourious Basterds and Django Unchained. He won 11 of these, including the Academy Awards, Golden Globes, and the BAFTA Awards for BOTH films.
P1ppJ TIL the site of Lincoln's assassination, Ford's Theater, is a complete reconstruction except for its exterior walls. It was recreated to appears as it did in 1865 by a group of experts and historians in the 1960’s
5Volk TIL that Japan has a town named "Usa" which many believed was deliberately named to promote goods as "Made in USA"
neQMY TIL in 1907 the US Supreme Court ruled that "a woman is not a person", barring a woman from practicing law. That same year, a woman arrested for drunkenness argued, and won her case, that she could not be charged because she was not a person and therefore not held accountable to the law.