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TIL Mount Everest is a ticking poop time bomb:there are literally tons of human poop on Mount Everest, despite Sherpas bringing down 26 500 pounds of poop every season

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ANAGx TIL that the last recorded use of pit ponies in a British coal mine was in 1999 at Pant y Gasseg, and that the practice had ended in 1990 in Australia and 1971 in the USA
4XKnb TIL When casting the first Marvel Cinematic Universe film 'Iron Man', Marvel did not want Robert Downey Jr cast as the title character. The film's director 'would not take no for an answer' as he knew the character lined up perfectly with RDJ's life.
e004k TIL That Telivison would end at Midnight in the 1960s
R555w TIL Cher's 1998 hit "Believe" is the first song to use Auto-Tune. The singer believed her career was hitting "rock bottom," and after hearing a different song with a wobble effect created by a vocoder (a voice effect pedal tool), decided she wanted to create a similar song.
8K4 TIL Pitbulls were once commonly used as babysitters