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TIL: K2, the world's second highest mountain, has had nearly 1 person die for every 4 successful summits

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jMLE TIL Warren Buffett disowned his adopted granddaughter after she participated in a documentary about wealthy people
9a1B TIL CNN once had two reporters talk to each other via satellite while they were standing in the same parking lot
7rdKM TIL "Mad" Mike Hughes died after crashing in his homemade steam powered rocket. He launched from the California desert and hoped to reach the Kármán Line, where Earth's atmosphere meets outer space 62 miles above the ground to prove that the Earth is a flat disk and not a sphere.
5YpXr TIL that the famous Japanese painting of a giant wave is actually from a series of 36 paintings of Mt. Fuji from different views
4XwWJ TIL that, on May 13, 1974, seventy three children were struck with a mysterious illness at a Florida elementary school. Suspecting a gas leak, the Dept. of Public Health sent investigators. Dr. Nitzkin, an epidemiologist, discovered it was mass hysteria: one child fainted and the others panicked.