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TIL of Didier Delsalle, the only pilot to have successfully landed a helicopter on the summit (8848m) of Mt Everest.

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nKXB TIL Lego blocks are so strong that it would take a stack of 375,000 bricks to cause the bottom brick to collapse, which represents a stack 3,591 meters (11,781 ft) in height.
4XXgN TIL that Skittles are currently made by the chewing gum company, called Wrigley.
GYoQ4 TIL Research shows that parents who want their children to cut back on screen-time must cut back on screen-time themselves
7rVXM TIL that the decision to remove Alexander Hamilton from the ten-dollar bill was reversed due to the popularity of the musical, Hamilton.
jlvR TIL Pedro, the son of King Afonso IV of Portugal, was forbidden by the king to marry the woman he loved. King Afonso had her murdered to keep them apart. When Pedro became king, he hunted down her assassins and had their hearts torn out, symbolic of what they had done to him