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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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PYePE TIL of the most rigged election ever (Liberian election in 1927). The winner received 243,000 votes despite the total number of registered voters was fewer than 15,000.
1oaD TIL: Canada and the United States are the only two advanced countries to offer unconditional birthright citizenship.
16Jw8 TIL the historical meridian marker in Greenwich is actually off by about 100 metres because the unevenness in the mass of the Earth bends the light of the stars that were used to calculate it
wLrmW TIL that although it's called the "San Francisco Bay Area", the city of San Francisco isn't even the biggest city in that area. San Jose, its neighbor to the South, is more populous and nearly 4 TIMES larger in area.
yxww TIL the US government has concluded 51% of Americans make under $30,000, annually