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TIL corpses are used as navigation and landmarks on Mount Everest

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R74o4 TIL The Vagabonds Act (1547) stated "if anyone refuses to work, he shall be condemned as a slave to the person who has denounced him as an idler." The owner could then force the new slave to do any work "no matter how vile." If the slave escaped three times, you could execute them.
QGBp TIL the rules to Monopoly clearly state that if a player lands on a property and doesn’t buy it, it immediately goes up for auction to the highest bidder.
kOX5g TIL that the first nuclear explosion almost occurred by accident in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. Dr. Richard Feynman, a physicist who was working on the Manhattan Project, discovered that the military's "need to know" security resulted in a dangerous amount of uranium nitrate being stored with uranium-235.
6E50W TIL Honda kept its aircraft development project a secret from Soichiro Honda who was retired at the time, they worried that he might insist on resuming an active role if he got wind of the aircraft project because he loved aircrafts so much.
NXxM TIL: History Channal Pawnstars is Fake.