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TIL That in 2005 Cheyenne storytellers broke over a century of silence to discuss the Battle of Little Big Horn. According to them the blow which took Colonel Custer from his horse and would lead to his death was struck by Buffalo Calf Road Woman who had accompanied her husband into battle.

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M7LYV TIL there’s a secret material called FOGBANK that is used in nuclear warheads. "The material is classified. Its composition is classified. Its use in the weapon is classified, and the process itself is classified.”
ANgpd TIL about Scottish guitarist Bert Jansch whose uncredited work influenced Paul Simon, Jimmy Page, and Neil Young. A true folk vagabond, Jansch didn’t even own a guitar in his early career, only playing venues that were willing to lend him one.
wL1bo TIL the film Donnie Darko took only 28 days to shoot; coincidentally the timer in the movie counting down to the end of the world is approximately 28 days.
Eg090 TIL The Harvard University acceptance rate is higher than applying to be a NYC sanitation worker.
90RD TIL in 1956 Paul Hogan shocked the art world by unhooking an Impressionist masterpiece from a wall in the Tate Gallery (London) and carrying it calmly out of the gallery. Despite being photographed by journalists while he was stealing it, he’s never been prosecuted.