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TIL that some mountain climbers carry their own waste in their backpacks.

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VBXDk TIL the 1988 Camelford Water Disaster was the UK's worst mass poisoning event. Twenty tonnes of aluminium sulphate was accidentally added to the water supply, leading thousands to become sick. Inquests on people who died many years later found very high levels of aluminium in the brain.
wLxXP TIL Werner Herzog directed a documentary with 88 year old Mikhail Gorbachev in 2019. Herzog began the program by apologising for being a German because he assumed they wanted to kill him growing up, but Gorbachev said kindly Germans were his grandfather’s neighbours
pYYY8 TIL that in the Kingdom of Hungary in 1946, inflation was so high that prices doubled every 15 hours. Something that cost 379 Hungarian pengős in Sep 1945, ended up costing 1 trillion trillion pengős by Jul 1946.
9Yp1M TIL a 10 year old boy in China spent 2 years collecting 160,000 plastic bottles, raising $2,700. He donated all this money, and his own savings of $30, to orphans of AIDS victims.
1WOd TIL A man is selling the recipe for Coca Cola. Bidding starts at $5,000,000.00