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.

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View from the top of Mount Everest. It is estimated that more than 2,000 people successfully reached it; unfortunately, about 189 people died.

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The name Pakistan is an acronym - Punjab, Afghania, Kashmir, Sindh, and Baluchistan.

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𝗪𝗛𝗬 𝗱𝗼𝗲𝘀 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝘂𝘁𝗲𝗿/𝗹𝗮𝗽𝘁𝗼𝗽 𝗻𝗲𝗲𝗱𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗿𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝗶𝗻𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝘂𝗽𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀❓

✅Whether it’s for software updates or just when installing, uninstalling, or updating software, Windows will often ask to reboot.When a computer is running software, it loads much of the program into its memory.If we managed to update that same software on the hard disk or solid state drive (SSD), then the program may panic as everything will be different – it won’t be able to find the files that were there a moment ago.

📌To prevent this, operating systems usually insist that when major updates are needed, we shut down the software being updated, then restart with the new software installed

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One of The oldest person ever documented, Jeanne Calment, smoked for 100 years, drank a daily glass of wine, and ate two pounds of chocolate every week. She died aged 122, outliving both her daughter and her daughter's son.

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A raccoon has thousands of tactile receptors on its paws, with their help the animal is able to identify an object even without looking at it.

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In Dubai, you can UBER a helicopter instead of a taxi. A helicopter ride booked for a group of six costs 144.30$ per person, while individual seats are priced at 171.52$. UberTour is being operated in the same fashion as the company's car service, with bookings made through the app.

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The world's oceans contain 20 million tons of gold. This gold is dispersed throughout the oceans in tiny particles and is not currently economically feasible to extract. The total value of this gold is estimated to be around $771 trillion, which is nearly 10 times the current global GDP.

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The compulsive desire to look at something that horrifies you, like a horror film or an injury, is called cacospectomania.

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Last image of French diver Paul Henry Nargeolet who saw the Titantic 37 times before he died on his 38th trip on OceanGate’s submersible 'Titan'.

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At around age 23, the average person falls off what the researcher Jennifer Aaker calls ‘the humour cliff’: we start to laugh and smile less and less. The average 4-year-old laughs and smiles 300 times a day, the average 40-year-old — 300 times every 75 days.

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In 2002, Jason Padgett was brutally beaten outside a karaoke bar, resulting in a brain concussion and a severe case of PTSD.

But this may have actually been the best thing that happened to him because he now has Acquired Savant Syndrome - Savant syndrome is a condition in which a person demonstrates profound and remarkable knowledge after suffering a physical or psychological trauma. 

Savant skills are usually found in one or more of five major areas: art, musical abilities, calendar calculation, mathematics, and spatial skills and as many as 50 cases of sudden or acquired savant syndrome have been reported, thought likely many more go unreported.

But even so, the syndrome is extremely rare, and for someone to develop sudden mathematical skills, that's even rarer.

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