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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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x5XB TIL the world may run out of chocolate by 2020
owlW TIL albino redwood trees are unable to produce chlorophyll, however, they can survive because they are able to fuse their roots with the roots of other redwood trees and live as parasites.
GANVQ TIL Jerry Houser played Dave Killer Carson in Slapshot but is more recognizable as Marcia Brady's husband Wally Logan on FOUR separate Brady Bunch reunion shows/series. Even the original Marcia didn't make it for the last one!
oBvoK TIL 171,000 people perished in 1975 China due to the collapse of the Banqiao Dam, an event hidden from the world until 2005.
VBKD4 TIL the US Secret Service was founded on April 14 1865 and signed in to law by Abraham Lincoln only hours before he was assassinated.