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TIL Mt. Everest has 3G coverage
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TIL that 23 out of the 45 restaurants Gordon Ramsay owns has closed
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TIL that in 1985 Phil Collins first performed at the Live Aid concert at Wembley (UK), 5 hours later he joined the Live Aid concert in Philadelphia (US) at the same local time as in London, thanks to the Concorde.
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TIL at 18 years old Qudsia Begum gave a speech at her husband's funeral convincing the male claimants to acknowledge her daughter as heir to Bhopal and herself as regent, starting a female Islamic dynasty in Bhopal that lasted 107 years
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TIL that after the breakup of the Soviet Union, the Lithuanian basketball team couldn't afford to participate in the 1992 Olympics, so the Grateful Dead funded the team's expenses, and the team wore tie-dye uniforms.
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TIL that Johnny Cash’s guitar player died in 1968. Cash found himself at a show where the temporary replacement, Carl Perkins, couldn’t make it. An audience member asked Cash if he could fill in for the night, and he said yes. Bob Wootton then became Cash’s guitar player for the next 29 years