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9YOv6 TIL of Sir Douglas Mawson, an Australian who led an expedition to the south pole in 1912. He went on a 3-man sledding team. On the way back to the main base, his two teammates died and most of the equipment was lost. He continued the final 100 miles back alone and survived falling down a crevasse.
OGbg4 TIL that the Catholic Church runs a secretive facility outside St. Louis, Missouri where it sends abusive priests. At its peak, it operated 23 such facilities around the world.
6E7AZ TIL about the Demon Core, a 6.2 kilogram mass of plutonium. It was named as such after it claimed the lives of two scientists at Los Alamos Labratory in 1945/1946
R74Bw TIL the movie Stuart Little had a long-lost Hungarian painting hanging in the background. The masterpiece was lost before WWII, and was discovered in 2009 when an art historian watched Stuart Little with his daughter. The film's set designer had found the painting at an antiques shop in California.
oXgK TIL there are 43 giant sculptures of the heads of former U.S. Presidents, rotting away in a Virginian field due to a failed tourist attraction named “President’s Park”.