Mt Everest isn't as clean as you think - Get Fact'd with Darren Maule

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On Get Fact'd with Darren Maule, he shares unfamiliar facts with the team. It's usually mind-blowing facts you've never heard anywhere else.
- In 2019, climbers left an estimated 8,000 kg of poo at a single camp on Mount Everest.
- A wheeple is an ineffectual attempt to whistle loudly.
- Leading up to Normandy, MI-5 conducted one of the largest military deception efforts to convince the Germans that a landing would instead take place at Calais; going so far as to fake a whole army, with radio messages of "coded" gibberish, fake vehicles, and ersatz camps to fool recon planes
- Following a recent salmonella outbreak, the US Centres for Disease Control has warned people not to ‘kiss or snuggle’ their chickens.
7 Jun 2021 11AM English South Africa Society & Culture · Daily News

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