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TIL Despite looking like a rectangle on maps, Colorado is actually a concave polygon with 697 sides.

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x6XOB TIL about Jane Wallis Burrell, the first CIA agent to die in service of the agency. She died on a runway in France in 1948 just 110 days after the Agency’s creation. She does not have a star on the memorial wall, as she did not qualify as the plane was commercially flown.
9YkBm TIL in 2001 the Crown Prince of Nepal shot dead 9 members of his family at a dinner party, including the King and Queen. He then shot himself and died three days later.
KOKAG TIL Mt. Everest was climbed in 10h 56m by Lakpa Gelu Sherpa, who is said to have left base camp, summitted, and returned in just over 18 hours.
wL5R6 TIL in Sweden you have a constitutional right to camp wherever you wish in the countryside as long as you do not camp too close to somebody's home. This includes being able to camp on private land.
8oPG TIL that before the heart/lung machine was invented, a doctor oxygenated his patient’s blood by routing it through another person. Parents often served this purpose while their children had heart surgery.