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TIL the founder of the North Face died of hypothermia

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8a5L TIL three times as many left-handed people have schizophrenia, bipolar disease or autism.
Z8KYQ TIL that there are more trees on Earth (3 trillion), than stars in the Milky Way (100 billion).
0KK1 TIL that the USSR renamed its rocket base Baikonur in 1961 to keep the Soviet space program a secret. Residents of the original Baikonur, hundreds of km away, took advantage of the resulting confusion by ordering many valuable supplies for themselves before the scam was discovered.
KjxG TIL the head of Serbia’s popular State Lottery was forced to resign after the winning numbers of a ‘random’ drawing appeared to television viewers before they were drawn
awy00 TIL that FBI's nationwide manhunt to capture depression-era gangster John Dillinger after he broke out of jail cost them about 2 million dollars at the time. The total amount of money his gang looted was around 500,000 dollars.