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TIL that Lesotho is a country entirely surrounded by South Africa, and it's known as the "Kingdom in the Sky" because of its high altitude.

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x9R5 TIL in 1991 a fake Russian tv program on Leningrad tv convinced many citizens that Lenin consumed a lot of psychedelic mushrooms, eventually even becoming a mushroom himself. The Leningrad communist party had to declare that"Lenin could not have been a mushroom" because “a mammal can not be a plant”
GYXBg TIL that when Guillermo Del Toro's father was kidnapped, director James Cameron gave Del Toro over $1 million in cash to help pay the ransom.
b9DgZ TIL that the longest and most expensive criminal case in American history, a 15 year investigation of 321 counts of child abuse, led to no convictions and was likely "simply invented" and the result of mass hysteria.
OXe TIL someone skied down Mt. Everest
BrrDk TIL that the sperm count of males in westernized countries is down by a staggering 59.3%. This change has taken place in just the past 40 years and something needs to be done about it.