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TIL that mountains have "roots" i.e. a part of the mountain that extends underground in order for the mountain to have isostatic equilibrium

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9wvGm TIL about Jean-Marc Boivin. He was the first person to paraglide from the summit of Mount Everest!
XE9y6 TIL elephants rarely get cancer because they have extra copies of two cancer-fighting genes: P53, which hunts for cells with miscopied DNA, and LIF6, which obliterates the mutated cells before they can form a tumor.
jNOvn TIL Jeff Bezos paid more than $16,000 in parking tickets while renovating his DC mansion
rl60 TIL the only American President to propose a guaranteed minimum income was a Republican, Richard Nixon.
d569 TIL students at MIT conducted a study in which they told children to hold a Barbie doll, a Furby and a real hamster upside down for as long as they were comfortable. Although they knew the Furby was just a toy, they still felt guilty because it was programmed to cry and act scared.