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TIL a woman fell after summiting Everest. Her husband died trying to rescue her. Two climbers comforted her before leaving her to die because they couldn’t carry her. After much guilt, they went back 8 years later to enshrine her body. Her husband was found a year later.
E1pxp
TIL when in 2013 5-year-old Alanah Poullard asked the US President for an excuse note during a Wounded Warriors and families tour of the White House on a school day, the President ended up writing that excuse note.
aw9ry
TIL that the US once fed information to the USSR about an extremely deadly nerve gas called "GJ" that was nearly impossible to create. Although initially intended to waste Soviet resources on a wild goose chase, the project to replicate "GJ" ended up producing the now-infamous Novichok agents.
aOnM
TIL that in 2009, several lenders were caught raising interest rates, lowering credit limits, and even damaging the overall credit scores of customers who shopped at thrift and low cost retailers, based on the assumption that they were struggling financially.
D1AYJ
TIL the conspiracy theory that US government created AIDS was part of Soviet propaganda to distract attention from its biological warfare program.