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TIL The State of Wyoming has only 2 escalators
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TIL David Harbour, Hopper From Stranger Things & More Recently The Tide Guy, Tore His Achilles While Playing The Character Achilles In A Shakespeare In The Park Production.
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TIL Hans Staininge, a 1500s man with a 4.5 foot beard died tripping over his beard, breaking his neck running from a fire. The beard was removed and is now on display in Braunau, Germany.
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TIL Scientist John All fell into a 70-foot deep crevasse in Nepal. He broke 15 bones and was bleeding internally but miraculously survived and was able to document his climb out.
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TIL the founder of the Smithsonian, James Smithson, was a British scientist who willed his fortune to his nephew and in the event his nephew died with no heirs, to the US government to found an "Establishment for the increase and diffusion of knowledge among men"; having never visited the US.
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TIL that bumblebees can fly higher than the peak of Mt. Everest. Researchers put the bees in plexiglass chambers where they simulated different altitudes. While all bees were capable of flying at over 24,278 ft (7,400 m), two bees were capable of hovering at over 29,527 ft (9,000 m).