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TIL of Peter Kinloch, who went blind shortly after summiting Mount Everest and had to be abandoned by his team

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n8pP TIL Tetris was originally created as a simple game to test the capabilities of new Soviet hardware. This is the original version.
XpR TIl that the bikini was so named during operation Crossroads, the first nuclear tests at the Bikini atols. “Like the bomb, the bikini is small and devastating.”
GxBj TIL that 63% of registered American voters believe in at least one political conspiracy theory
XVgP TIL in 2009 the US mint offered free delivery on purchases of the new $1 coins, and many people exploited this to earn thousands of “free” airline miles buy using their credit cards to buy the coins, then using the coins to pay the credit card
XOLE TIL Bryan Adams’s hit “Summer of ‘69’” is not about the year, but about the sexual position.