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TIL more people have climbed Mt Everest than the smallest mountain in the world (Mount Wycheproof)

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rRwMo TIL that Alexander the Great may have been buried alive (accidentally) up to six days before his death, after succumbing to Guillain-Barré Syndrome. This would have left him unable to speak or move, and his breath so shallow that he was pronounced dead.
M705m TIL that the hidden space under the Lincoln Memorial is about to become a museum
rg4x TIL the French secret service planted mines on a Greenpeace ship, sinking it and killing one person.
0dPm1 TIL Isadore in Ida Strauss, the founders of the Macy's department store, died on the Titanic. They have a great-great-granddaughter. Who was she married to? Stockton Rush. The guy who died on the Oceangate/Titanic submersible implosion.
LWkd TIL The cows that make the milk that goes into Ben & Jerry’s ice cream receive massages.