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TIL that of the 189 people who have died climbing Mount Everest, an estimated 120 still remain on the mountain.

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N7LQN TIL of the Palm Dog Award, an award at the Cannes Film Festival given to the best canine performance.
oBGYL TIL Ainu people are indigenous to Hokkaidō, Japan. They have their own religion, language, and culture. Now fewer than 100 speak the language.
j6dPQ TIL that in 1972, Italian musician Adriano Celentano released a song called Prisencolinensinainciusol. The name of the song and its lyrics are gibberish but are intended to sound like English in an American accent. It ended up being a big hit.
VBEJD TIL The team that developed aureomycin, the first broad spectrum antibiotic ever discovered, consisted of a Harvard discriminated Indian scientist, an age discriminated scientist who was the son of a Confederate officer, and a preeminent black doctor in the 1940s.
GAMLN TIL that the last words of Terry Kath (guitarist and vocalist of Chicago) were:"What do you think I'm gonna do? Blow My Brains out?" Before he put a gun that still had a round in the chamber to his temple and pulled the trigger. 8 days before his 32nd birthday.