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TIL There Are Over 200 Bodies on Mount Everest, And They’re Used as Landmarks

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5YkXr TIL Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer was written by Johnny Marks, a Jewish man who based the story on his own childhood and struggles as a small and shy underdog
x5rD TIL Norway has the World’s biggest sovereign fund, where it has been saving almost all the money it gets from the sale of oil and is worth almost a trillion dollars.
GYyN5 TIL that a peace flame has been burning in Hiroshima since it was lit in 1964, and will remain lit until all nuclear bombs on the planet are destroyed and the planet is free from the threat of nuclear annihilation.
J1wov TIL that L. Ron Hubbard, the founder of Scientology, is the Guinness World Records holder of most published author with 1,084 works.
rR1d0 TIL the East German secret police preferred not to arrest people, but rather use "biodegradation" to paralyze enemies of the state: organizing failures at their workplace, destroying their friendships, and ruining their reputation.