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TIL corpses are used as navigation and landmarks on Mount Everest

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J1wEl TIL that in Ireland 40 years ago, Malcolm MacArthur, a socialite with a yen for bow ties and cravats, bludgeoned a woman to death, killed a farmer with his own shotgun then attempted to rob a US diplomat. He was found in the apartment of the Irish attorney general, who had hosted him as a guest.
VMp60 TIL Fat Bottom Girls and Bicycle Race by Queen were released together on a double A-sided single, and refer to each other. Near the end of Fat Bottomed Girls, Mercury shouts, "Get on your bikes and ride!" Bicycle Race reciprocates with the lyric "fat bottomed girls, they'll be riding today."
ZwrR TIL Stephen King sued producers for attaching his name to the 1992 film “The Lawnmower Man” because it “‘bore no meaningful resemblance’ to his story.”
b9Wg7 TIL In 2013, 19 living men in the Tyrol region of Austria were determined to be direct descendants of Ötzi the Iceman.
5YaLn TIL that the first computer game was Nim, released in April 1940 on a computer called the Nimatron, which weighed over a ton. The designer was a nuclear physicist and quantum mechanics pioneer who later participated in the Manhattan Project. 100,000 games were played, with the computer winning ~90%