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TIL the founder of the North Face died of hypothermia

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5VgP TIL there´s a hugely popular reality show in China that interviews death row prisoners moments before their execution
kOVjd TIL evidence showed that during the seven and a half months preceding Elvis's death -- from January 1, 1977, to August 16, 1977 -- Doctor Nichopoulos wrote prescriptions for Elvis for at least 8,805 pills, tablets, vials, and injectables. Going back to January 1975, the count was 19,012.
a8mZy TIL one of the earliest and most notorious uses of the "correlation does not imply causation" argument was by R A Fisher, the British polymath and father of modern statistics, who used it in the 1950s to cast doubt on emerging studies linking cigarette smoking to cancer
YGaB TIL Isaac Newton’s Principia, one of the most significant scientific works in history, was nearly left unpublished, as the Royal Society had already spent all their funds printing the hugely unsuccessful ‘History of Fish’
0w91M TIL There is a group of about 400 ultra powerful and wealthy individuals that see movies on release day in their own home theaters. It costs $100k to join and $4k/month membership. It is called the Bel Air Circuit.