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TIL There’s an area on Mt. Everest called “Rainbow Valley”, named for the multicolored down jackets and climbing gear attached to the numerous corpses littered along the hillside.

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oRZQW TIL: Faulty calculations of a doctors surplus led U.S. medical schools to put a moratorium on enrollment between 1980 and 2005. During that time, the US population grew 70 million, but the number of medical school graduates stayed at 16,000 yearly.
NXE18 TIL the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) was established in 1988. At the time, the disease paralysed more than 1000 children worldwide every day.
9wKoB TIL that Yuma High School’s mascot is the Criminal because the first school building was the old Yuma Territorial Prison.
0w7YA TIL in 2009, Filipino employee Amador Bernabe was kicked out of his job for using water, instead of toilet paper, to clean himself during toilet visits.
x6lx5 TIL while writing "A Christmas Carol," Charles Dickens was "taking night-time walks of 15 to 20 miles (24 to 32 km) around London." to build out the story in his head.