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TIL more people die descending Mt. Everest after they’ve made it to the top than during the ascent.

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4kNBR TIL BuzzFeed won a Pulitzer Prize in 2021 for their reporting on the Chinese government's mass detention of Muslims.
mxnxx TIL that 7 Up launched a variation called "dnL" (the 7up logo turned upside down) and was basically the opposite of 7 Up: instead of a caffiene-free clear soda in a green bottle, it was a caffienated green soda in a clear bottle, and instead of lemon-lime the flavor was lime-lemon.
OoYOY TIL about white torture. A person is isolated in a all white room and given only white food to strip them of their identity.
xj75 TIL that the staple ingredient in most Italian foods is not native to Italy nor Europe. The tomato originated in Mexico.
N1Gb TIL that in 1998, a man named Matthew Shepard was murdered by two men who tied him to a fence, and beat him until he died. Despite the homophobic rhetoric used during their trial Aaron McKinney and Russell Henderson were not charged with a hate crime.