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TIL The official Twitter account of Sweden is given to a random Swedish citizen every week to manage.

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mxEvy TIL about Gangkhar Puensum, which is probably the highest mountain no one has ever climbed, since it's located in a country that bans climbing mountains.
b95oE TIL that for decades universities and automobile manufacturers have used human cadavers to get realistic crash test results.
KrG9 TIL Nickelodeon was the name given to early movie theaters where admission cost a nickel
j6exQ TIL Mount Thor in Canada has the world's longest vertical drop. If you fell off it, you would fall for over a kilometer before you hit anything.
GYPJ TIL aides from the Clinton administration removed all “W” keys from the keyboards in the White House before George W. Bush took over.