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TIL Cher has climbed Mount Everest not once, but twice

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0BY5 TIL that Clyde Tombaugh, the astronomer who discovered Pluto, had some of his ashes placed aboard the New Horizons space probe, the spacecraft that first explored the dwarf planet
jkMR TIL The world’s first theater devoted exclusively to moving pictures appeared in Pittsburgh in 1905. Its founders called the place Nickelodeon, from the price of admission (a nickel) and “Odeon” the ancient Greek word for theatre.
OQ7a TIL that Hillary Clinton was the first female member of the Wal-Mart board of directors. She is currently one of the largest shareholders for Wal-Mart
5V7oD TIL - Pope Leo XIII was the first Pope whose voice was recorded on audio. He also drank Vin Mariani, wine laced with cocaine
mxewO TIL that the US accidentally created an artificial radiation belt around the earth in 1962, by detonating an hydrogen bomb in the upper atmosphere. It resulted in the destruction or damaging of 30% of the satellites in lower earth orbit, and knocked out electric devices 1 300 km away from the blast