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TIL: The same man who left Hugh Glass for dead (The Revenant) later lied to the Donner Party about Hastings Cutoff, sending them to their fate.

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v1KBx TIL that the creator of peanut M&Ms, Forrest Mars, was actually allergic to peanuts
BrA4e TIL that Japanese beer company Asahi gave away a R2D2 shaped beer robot to customers who collected a certain amount of seals that were hidden in beer cans.
6abQ TIL of the Trachtenberg speed math system used to multiply large numbers in your head. It was developed by a Jew, Jakow Trachtenberg, while being held in a nazi concentration camp. He developed this technique as a distraction from the horrors surrounding him.
MebnV TIL the first documented use of toilet paper dates back in 589AD in early medieval China. Elsewhere, wealthy people wiped themselves with wool, lace or hemp, while others used their hand when defecating into rivers, using rags, wood shavings, leaves, grass, hay, stones, sand, moss,water, snow, etc.
00ay TIL The first man to fly a plane Orville Wright) & the first man to walk on the moon (Buzz Aldrin) were alive at the same time. Buzz was 17 when Orville died and his father was good friends with Orville.