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TIL that the largest export from Columbia to the US is not coffee but crude petroleum.

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A5ya TIL there is a cave so big it has its own weather
M78ab TIL in 1962, mountaineers warned that unstable rock and ice on the Huascáran mountain could pose a danger to nearby villages. This was ignored by the Peru government, who threatened them with arrest. In 1970, an earthquake caused rocks and ice to come loose, killing 30,000 people.
JY95v TIL that there's a name dispute over whether it's appropriate to refer to Ireland and Britain as the "British Isles". Alternatives include IONA or Islands Of the North Atlantic, the Pretanic Isles after their ancient Greek name, and the St. Agnes Isles after the smallest island in the archipelago.
8Y4P TIL Everest is not the furthest point from the Earth’s center. It’s a volcano in Ecuador called Chimborazo due the Earth being wider at the equator.
JpXv TIL in 1906 the Bronx Zoo exhibited a Congolese pygmy man named Ota Benga in its Monkey House. The New York Times made light of the outrage at the time calling the “imagined humiliation and degradation” of Ota Benga “absurd” because “pygmies are very low in the human scale”