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TIL after the 2010 earthquake in Haiti the Red Cross raised half a billion dollars and allegedly only built 6 homes

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JYn0j TIL actress Halle Berry was in an abusive relationship with co-actor Wesley Snipes. At one point he hit her so hard she lost 80% of her hearing in one ear.
0jkL TIL a judge in Michigan held himself for contempt of court.
1aDrV TIL Cruentation, the understanding that dead bodies would bleed in the presence of their murderer, was a common belief in the Middle Ages.
5Vd9B TIL Mary Shelley, author of Frankenstein, which is considered to be the first science fiction, gothic horror novel also wrote “The Last Man”, about a global pandemic caused by a bubonic plague that devastates 21st century Europe, thereby innovating the post-apocalyptic and dystopian fiction genre
yRWJ TIL dog farts are silent but deadly because they have a horizontal rectum, making their sphincter looser, resulting in quieter farts.