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TIL that most of the bodies of climbers that have perished on Mount Everest remain where they died. In fact, climbers now use some of these bodies as landmarks during their climb.

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VBnZB TIL an early free trade agreement between the US and Canada was terminated by the US partly because of American anger towards the British's unofficial support of the Confederacy during the Civil War.
epPY6 TIL that Nietzsche's central concepts of Will to Power and Eternal Recurrence were in part inspired by long-forgotten natural scientist Johannes Gustav Vogt's "Force: A Realistic and Monistic Worldview" (1878), a work nowhere to be found and de facto lost for all of us
EgxDX TIL that Swiss voters rejected a proposal to reduce working hours in 2002
OoVMe TIL that Mary Shelley wrote a novella about a father's incestuous love to his daughter, and Mary gave it to her father to review, who called it "disgusting and detestable".
1VgV TIL that in the 1960s there were coin operated machines with live chickens that would play piano, ring a bell or play you in tic tac toe when you dropped in a dime.