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TIL That mount Everest became so popular that in 2019 there was a 12 hours long line of around 200 people at the very peak, with a few people dying because of it

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eAlD TIL Oskar Schindler became virtually destitute after the war and became bankrupt after trying to raise chickens in Argentina. For the rest of his life, he survived off gifts and donations from the Jews he had saved during the war.
J1wAl TIL that a 700 year old lead sarcophagus was discovered under the floor of the Notre Dame cathedral after it was burnt down. And that the sarcophagus will be opened sometime soon.
o6A8 TIL that John Horwood, a stalker convicted of murdering a young woman in 1821, was sentenced to dissection by a court in Bristol, UK. A surgeon peeled and consequently tanned his skin and made it into a book called “the skin of John Horwood”, recording his findings within.
b9vnE TIL that Sacha Baron Cohen, known for playing brainless idiots, has a degree in history from the University of Cambridge
ZkY TIL that in 2011, someone tried to sell a near-perfect fake of the Pontiac ambulance which had transported the body of President John F. Kennedy to his autopsy. Turns out the real one had been crushed in 1986 at the request of the Kennedy family.