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TIL Mt. Everest has 3G coverage

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AGwg TIL architects designed an ‘Earthscraper’ in response to a 10-story height limit on buildings in Mexico City. Reaching 1000 feet deep and shaped like a inverted pyramid, pedestrians walking over its transparent top ('base’) would be able to look down toward the bottom ('peak’) of the structure.
9YN9X TIL that more Constitutional amendments have been proposed to reform or eliminate the Electoral College than on any other subject.
e865 TIL of John C. Beale, a man who pretended he was a CIA secret agent, flew around the world on first-class flights, stayed in high-end hotels and cost the taxpayers almost $900,000.
KODZE TIL that for 14 years nobody on Sesame Street would believe Big Bird when he would try to tell them about Mr. Snuffleupagus. After an increase in child abuse cases, producers decided to make him "real" so children could see that adults will believe them when they have something important to say.
pm0p TIL That the pit of death in ‘300’ actually exists.