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TIL of the 340+ people who've died attempting to scale Mount Everest, over 200 bodies haven't been found or recovered due to the hazardous conditions

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NRK6 TIL Nintendo’s stock skyrocketed when Pokémon Go was released, until investors realized Nintendo didn’t make the game. Stock plummeted resulting in $6.4 billion loss in value.
PY8nJ TIL Dane Cook has Laugh Factory's endurance record of performing for 7 hours straight, beating previous record held by Dave Chappelle by 38 minutes.
epZPL TIL in 2012, a California high school student was directed to urinate in a bucket in a supply room closet after a teacher mistakenly believed that bathroom breaks were not permitted. In 2017, a court ordered the school district to pay the student $1.25 million.
xkJg TIL that H.P. Lovecraft was a virulent racist, and the fear he encountered after moving to ethnically-diverse Brooklyn helped him develop his horror writing.
VMo90 TIL that in 1995 a Florida man buried 9 "unwanted" day-old puppies alive in a paper bag, in full view of their tethered mother. Mama dog broke free later and began frantically digging the ground and retrieving puppies, which luckily attracted the attention of a neighbor who phoned police.