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TIL about the Love Canal Disaster, which lead to the creation of the EPA superfund

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xL80 TIL It costs $25,000 for a mountaineer to buy a single permit to climb Mt. Everest.
e0ZNL TIL of Sarah Ann Henley, who survived a 75-metre jump because her billowing skirt slowed her fall.
b9gpN TIL about Claudette Colvin, a 15 year old African American girl from Montgomery, AL who was arrested in 1955 after she refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white woman, telling the bus driver, "It's my constitutional right to sit here." She did this 9 months prior to Rosa Parks' famous protest.
KAxw TIL that there are hundreds of people who suffer depression (and even suicidal thoughts), because Avatar (the movie) isn’t real and they can never go to Pandora.
OoOd1 TIL that for a period of four years, the North Irish Horse (a British regiment) was reduced in size to a single man, Major Sir Ronald Ross