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1970

TIL the peak of Mount Everest is a "fecal time bomb" due to over six decades worth of human waste being left on the mountain.

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neBm9 TIL despite being one of the most common elements on Earth, aluminum was hard to isolate until the 1800s. It wasn't widely used for everyday things like coins and foil until the 1950s and 60s. At one point in history, it was more valuable than gold
d8l48 TIL the Leeroy Jenkins video was staged
LQBnr TIL the popular playground game of whispering a phrase down a line has a strange name variation. In the US and Canada, it is called the Telephone Game. In the UK, we call it Chinese Whispers.
Ej7w TIL that Wu Zetian, the only female emperor of China, forced visiting officials to pay their respects by performing oral sex on her
vnxB TIL that Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys wrote “California Girls” during his first experience with LSD. He sat in front of a piano and played what are now the first four notes of the song over and over again for about an hour, until the rest of the song suddenly came to him.