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TIL there is an $11,000 royalty fee a climber must pay to the Nepal government to climb Mount Everest. They earn around $3.25 million every season.

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9l6r TIL: One in five Irish children hear voices - startling findings show “auditory hallucinations” common among Irish children
wLXMo TIL Medical students in 18th-century Scotland could pay their tuition fees in corpses.
Y7MOd TIL when the skeleton of Richard III was unearthed, it was mistakenly announced that they found an arrowhead in his spine, when this later turned out to be a nail from the Roman era that coincidentally happened to be in the soil.
pYWG4 TIL that since Herbert Hoover became President of the US in 1929, 7 out of 16 (43.7%) presidents were left handers. The general rate for lefties in the US is 1 out of 10 (10%).
5YGjP TIL The Hubble Space Telescope has already required 4 servicing missions (1993, 1997, 1999, 2002). The fifth mission, that was scheduled in 2005, was canceled following the Columbia disaster (2003). Hubble's problems began when it was discovered that its optical system had a flawed mirror.