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TIL the Founder of The North Face died of Hypothermia in Chile in 2015

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4XkLw TIL about Robert Carey, who took a two day horse ride to Scotland against orders on the death of Elizabeth I to inform her heir of the news so he could get himself a good job with him.
rRlmd TIL that nearly 100 people in Germany die annually while masturbating, and that forensic examiners estimate one to two people per million are killed each year globally.
X0YBX TIL about "John Rainwater", a fake graduate math student in the 1950s created as a prank due to an extra student registration form. The name later became a pseudonym for publishers in functional analysis, even having their own result called "Rainwater's theorem"
LkrKP TIL M&M stands for Mars and Murrie.
5VVx9 TIL that the spellings "per cent" and "percent" are both correct, the difference is that "per cent" is used mainly in Britain and Canada, whereas "percent" is most preferred in the US