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TIL that an elderly Eskimo in the 1950s, in order to escape government settlement made a knife out of his own feces and frozen spit, killed a dog with it and used its ribs and organs to make a sled, tied it to other dogs and rode off.

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NX0X1 TIL about actor Doug McClure, who was the inspiration for The Simpsons' character, Troy McClure. McClure's daughter said that while watching an episode of The Simpsons, Doug saw the character Troy McClure on the show and said, "Are they making fun of me?"
4XZD6 TIL that the movie 'Salt of the Earth' which is based in a true story of a 15 month-long strike and it was blacklisted by Hollywood because the writer, the director and the producer were alleged members of the Communist party and the actress Rosaura Revueltas was deported for being in this movie,
J1bGV TIL that in 2018, Saudi Arabia lifted a 35-year ban on cinema. The first film to screen publicly in the country after the ban was lifted was "The Emoji Movie"
kZ4B TIL that in 1961 Belgians, with CIA involvement, ordered the murder of a democratically elected Prime Minister of Congo who just wanted for the Congolese to regain the natural resources still being under foreign control since the colonial times
Me7wb TIL of 'The Great Impostor', who successfully impersonated a career as a ship's doctor, a civil engineer, a sheriff's deputy, an assistant prison warden, a doctor of applied psychology, a hospital orderly, a lawyer, a child-care expert, amonk, an editor, a cancer researcher, and a teacher