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TIL it takes more than 60 days to climb mount everest.

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loGBa TIL Annually around 40 million Olive Ridley hatchlings are born in Odisha coast of India and they are monitored around the year from adults laying eggs to birth. Fishing and commercial activities are banned around particular coast. One of the most successful conservation story.
Y6Vd TIL of a stinging tree called the Gympie Gympie. It secretes a toxin that is so painful that is has driven humans and animals to suicide. It feels like being burnt with hot acid and electrocuted simultaneously. A man shot himself after using a leaf from the tree as toilet paper.
WknGN TIL by dry weight, the human brain is nearly 60% fat. And of that 10-20% is DHA (omega-3).
Yp5p7 TIL if you half an Australian $10 bill, it becomes valued at $5 and is still redeemable.
1axl7 TIL that Joachim von Ribbentrop would summon tailors from British firms, make them wait for hours, and then send them away with instructions to return the next day, only to repeat the process. This damaged his reputation with British high society.