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TIL: A woman trying prove that she could scale Mount Everest while on a vegan diet died of altitude sickness

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E1yAo TIL One of the reasons a full circle is 'decided' to be 360 degrees (and not a more obvious number, such as 100) because 360 is divisible by 24 different numbers, which makes it easy for math calculations. In contrast, 100 is only divisible by 9 different numbers.
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