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TIL the Hillary Step on Mount Everest was destroyed by an earthquake in 2015.

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JYJ74 TIL that MIT students discovered that by buying $600,000 worth of lottery tickets in the Massachusetts' Cash WinAll lottery they could get a 10-15% return on investment. Over 5 years, they managed to game $8 million out of the lottery through this method.
v1Nn8 TIL that Françafrique is a term to criticise the alleged corrupt and clandestine activities of various Franco-African political, economic and military networks.
LkZVv TIL that in 3000 BC the North Star was not Polaris, but a star called Thuban, because the axis of the earth was pointed in a different direction back then. This is because of the precession of equinoxes speeding and slowing down of the earth's spin through imperceptible intervals.
R7QNa TIL On the floor of a cave in southern France were found a number of detailed portraits of humans dating back to the Ice Age.
Kv5w TIL Sam Jackson had the same amount of screen time in Pulp Fiction as John Travolta yet was nominated for the Best Supporting Actor Oscar while Travolta got nominated for Best Actor.