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TIL that Erik Weihenmayer was the first person to climb mount Everest blind

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5YKjk TIL Though he had the rights, Steven Spielberg decided not to go ahead with “Cape Fear” because it was too violent. He traded it with Martin Scorsese for one that he had the rights to, but decided against: “Schindler’s List.”
e0jOn TIL the world's only Bigfoot trap is located in the Siskiyou National Forest in the southern part of Jackson County, Oregon, a few miles from the California state border. It was designed to capture a Bigfoot (or Sasquatch), the legendary hominid
N7Vb TIL that a survivor or the Hiroshima atomic bombing was introduced to the pilot of the Enola Gay on live television. Sad awkwardness ensues…
8QWK TIL Steven Spielberg was so impressed by a McDonald Ad about pee wee football that aired during the 1992 Super Bowl, he contacted the advertising executives to turn it into a full length movie. “Little Giants” was the result.
ADWv4 TIL Spielberg initially considered making Schindler's List entirely in German and Polish, but decided "there's too much safety in reading [subtitles]. It would have been an excuse [for the audience] to take their eyes off the screen and watch something else."