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TIL Mount Everest is the only place in the world where the land ever touches the stratosphere.

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4XedR TIL EA bought out exclusive rights to be the sole producer of NFL games under the Madden Franchise. This is because its competitor (2K Sports) released NFL 2K5 for $19.99 and was considered one of the best football games of all time. EA ensured 2K could never make another football game again.
N7L76 [TIL] that the soldiers who guarded the Nuremberg War Trials were former Waffen SS
D1pQV TIL It’s hypothesized that warm-bloodedness evolved in mammals and birds because it provided defense against fungal infections. Very few fungi can survive the body temperatures of warm-blooded animals. By comparison, insects, reptiles, and amphibians are plagued by fungal infections.
0mRy TIL Stalin’s body double was teased in school because of the resemblance with Stalin
p8oGZ TIL Ali Hassan Al-Majid was named Chemical Ali because of his contributions to Bloody Friday. This Event was a Chemical attack in Kurdistan in which people who were hit by these gas bombs dropped dead. In some cases, they coughed up green vomit/died of laughter.