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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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PRmO TIL in the 1980s that a powerful ring of MPs and ministers were sexually abusing teenage boys in sex parties in Elm Guest House in London. Conservative MP Geoffrey Dickens gave a dossier of names of paeodphiles associated with Parliament. It was “lost” by the home secretary, Leon Brittan.
OoBY7 TIL That the actress in Cheech and Chong's "Up In Smoke" who snorts the AJAX is the one who came up with the band name "Three Dog Night", which is meant to describe how cold a night is, and how many dogs you'd have to sleep with to stay warm
a8rb0 TIL A man in India carved a 110 meter-long (360 ft), 9.1 meter-wide (30 ft) and 7.7 meter-deep (25 ft) path through a ridge of hills using only a hammer and a chisel. After 22 years of work, he shortened travel distance from 34 miles to 9 miles.
9YbX7 TIL Baader Planetarium in Germany manufactures a filter film for safe viewing of the sun. This precision film was made in laboratories for nuclear and particle physic and its reflective property reduces intensity of sunlight by over 99.999%. The Sun appears in its real color - neutral white
5Y979 TIL in 1894, in the city of Passau, Germany, a local priest saved a four year old boy from drowning when he fell through the ice on a frozen river. According to many reports, historians, and locals from the time, that child was Adolf Hitler.