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

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mmEM TIL that an atomic bomb cameraman ripped his safety goggles a split second before the bomb exploded. He immediately covered his eyes with his hand and saw his hand’s bones through his closed eyelids just like in an X-ray.
P1VgL TIL that after the 9/11 attacks, a Maasai village in a remote region of Kenya donated 14 cows to US Diplomats as an expression of sympathy.
OdGR TIL that there is a secretive genre of electronic music called Black Midi which uses almost every single note at once
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