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TIL that there is a single book in a wooden box on the highest free-standing mountain in the world (Mt. Kilimanjaro) that has the thoughts of “nearly every climber who has summitted its Uhuru Peak.”

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awy4A TIL that in 1954, in Italy, a soccer match (Fiorentina vs Pistoiese) was suspended because multiple unidentified flying objects were spoted above the stadium and the whole city of Firenze. After a while a white sticky substance started falling from the sky. What happened is still a mistery.
Me0LW TIL That Sabrina Pasterski built an engine airplane at 14 y/o, at 16 became the youngest person ever to fly their own plane; she graduated MIT in 3 years with a 5.0 GPA and is now a 24 y/o harvard student getting a Ph.D. in high energy physics.
X8XP TIL first published in 1993, “On the Internet, nobody knows you’re a dog” is the most reproduced cartoon from The New Yorker magazine, and its title a phrase still used around the world.
97oD TIL that Thomas Peterffy was told by NASDAQ that his algorithmic trading was illegal because it lacked a keyboard so he created a robot with fingers to type all trades on the keyboard which made it legal - “the robot typed so fast it sounded like a machine gun.”
MenG7 TIL that for some reason Chinese media has explicitly banned the phrase “green tea bitch”