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TIL Chimborazo is the highest point on Earth
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2.2 km lower than Mount Everest and it's further from the Earth's center due to the equatorial bulge. That's quite a bulge.
I think of the earth as a giant gob of clay on a pottery wheel. It spins, it bulges, but ultimately it looks mostly round from a distance. 2 km lower than sea level and/or atmospheric level but higher than the dead center of this gob of clay. Silly and fun.