Answer:
Before Mount Everest was discovered what was the highest mountain on Earth?
What is cut on a table but is never eaten?
Alone I am 24th with a friend I am 20. Another friend and I am unclean.
Although a human shape I wear Mother I never had; And though no sense nor life I share in finest silks I'm clad. By every miss I'm valued much beloved and highly prized; still my cruel fate is such by boys I am often despised.
The more you take the more you leave behind. What am I?
If itβs information you seek, come and see me. If itβs pairs of letters you need, I have consecutively three. What am I?