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TIL: A woman trying prove that she could scale Mount Everest while on a vegan diet died of altitude sickness

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MeZeB TIL that the lowest house number in the UK is not 1. It is -2. There are also houses with non-integer numbers like 6.5, and a street called Street Road.
w9wM TIL The Sun, a British tabloid that published cruel lies about the Liverpool fans in its coverage of the 1989 Hillsborough Disaster in which 96 Liverpool fans died, is still banned from many Liverpool newsagencies, is not allowed at Liverpool matches and has very low sales in Liverpool to this day.
xw00 TIL hockey announcer Doc Emrick used 153 distinct verbs to describe the movement of the hockey puck in the 2014 Olympic game between USA and Canada.
6dWQ TIL An Asian high school girl was kicked out of the house because she didn’t do as well as her twin. She did better at murdering her and impersonating her though.
1Bw8 TIL after his horse was deemed unfit to run a grueling 100 mile equestrian race, Gordy Ainsleigh ran it by foot, completed it, and thus launched ultra marathons.