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TIL the woman who holds the record for the most summits of Mount Everest (9) is a single mother who works as a dishwasher at Whole Foods in Connecticut.

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VWMG TIL As a result of where fighting began in 1914 and ended in 1918 on the Western Front (Mons, Belgium), the first and last soldiers of the British Empire to be killed in the First World War are buried in the same cemetery.
4kb9N TIL passerbyers isn't a word
7re9X Sleeping in on the weekends could help you live longer.
b97Z4 TIL the University of Colorado named their cafeteria grill after an infamous confessed cannibal, Alferd G. Packer, with the slogan being "Have a friend for lunch!".
9YRQp TIL just a couple of months into their development, little humans begin peeing freely into the amniotic fluid that surrounds them in the womb. Every last one of us has spent several months drinking our own pee.