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

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VQWD TIL that the CEO of Japan Airlines makes $90,000 a year, less than the pilots, when interviewed about this he said “We in Japan learned during the bubble economy that businesses who pursue money first fail. The business world has lost sight of this basic tenet of business ethics.”
DQEBJ TIL suicide technically remained a crime in the UK up to 1961, and doctors dealing with suicides were meant to inform the police.
Y7Dxd TIL Nata de coco and nata de piña (soft gelly cubes often put into drinks, similarly to bubble tea) aren't made from the flesh of the fruit but from coconut water/juice going through a fermentation process where bacteria (Komagataeibacter xylinus) convert it into (bacterial) cellulose.
ne8VW TIL a metastudy in 2017 with over 10k participants found that daily vitamin D doses reduced the chance of contracting respiratory infections by 19%
Jayk TIL Samuel Johnson, an Englishman, said regarding the American colonies during the Revolutionary War, “How is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes?”