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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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GYxp4 TIL of Burj Al Babas - an abandoned $200m village in Turkey consisting of hundreds of Disney-style castles.
9wrJm TIL on Disneyland’s opening day in 1955, an invitation-only crowd of 15,000 was expected, but thanks to counterfeit tickets, 28,154 entered the gates. A few more even scaled a fence, using a ladder erected by an entrepreneur who charged $5 a head. On the Santa Ana Freeway, there was a 7-mile backup
MVA0 TIL Jimi Hendrix covered Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band live just three days after it was released, with Paul McCartney and George Harrison in the audience. It was never performed live by The Beatles.
7LGL TIL that the term “cold war” first appeared in a 1945 essay by the English writer George Orwell called “You and the Atomic Bomb.”
R7eb4 Today I learned about WRLDVW which is a new marketplace where you can buy and sell a limited supply of virtual goods associated with your name or location. For each name and location there are three virtual goods available for sale globally.