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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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Oox07 TIL that the same US textbooks have different political leanings in different states that they are sold in though they are sold as the same books
7rr0r TIL that Hunter S. Thompson, author of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, daily did seven rounds of cocaine by 9 pm, accompanied by whiskey and weed, only to "start snorting cocaine seriously" then, an hour before dropping acid.
loWk7 TIL Bernard Fisher established definitively that early-stage breast cancer is more effectively treated by lumpectomy, in combination with radiation therapy, chemotherapy, and/or hormonal therapy, than by radical mastectomy which had been standard for over 75 years.
VBMN8 TIL that women can have different heart attack symptoms than men, meaning that many women have a heart attack without even realizing it or being misdiagnosed
nW6Yb TIL Actor Lionel Royce, dismissed in Nazi Germany for being Jewish, retreated to the Alps, grew a beard, and dyed his hair with hydrogen peroxide. he returned to stage as a "self-thought peasant actor" and was praised by the Nazi as proof of Aryan superiority