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TIL: there are an estimated 200 bodies on MT Everest that hikers use as markers on their journey up the beast of a mountain, including a corpse named “green boots”.

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vPa6K TIL that just before Laika went into space, one of the scientists using her for testing brought her home to play with his children. Knowing that she would not survive her journey
mxvLo TIL crew members of the Challenger space shuttle survived the “explosion,” manually activated their emergency breathing packs, and were very likely alive for the full 2 minute and 45 second, 65,000 foot free-fall until their crew cabin crashed into the ocean.
DQ4Oj TIL The humorist Alphonse Allais was one of the first to make monochromatic paintings. His works include 'First Communion of Anemic Young Girls In The Snow' (1883) and 'Apoplectic Cardinals Harvesting Tomatoes on the Shore of the Red Sea' (1884).
Wk4eB TIL during the forced removal of Native Americans to Oklahoma along the Trail of Tears, many African American slaves were owned by tribes and forced to go as well. After the Civil War, the Freedmen founded their own communities and Oklahoma became home to over 50 All-Black Towns and settlements.
wL6EE TIL Fred Fuchs wasn't some random guy who worked on the Bram Stoker's Dracula video game that was made fun of regularly by James Rolfe's character Angry Video Game Nerd, but is actually a television and film producer who helped make the movie as well as Godfather Part III, among other films.