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TIL The American Red Cross built exactly 6 homes for Haiti with nearly half a billion dollars in donations

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Brx9y TIL that a "moment" is a medieval unit of time equivalent to about 90 seconds today.
lLBN TIL the infamous Apocalypse Now opening scene was filmed on Martin Sheen’s 36th birthday; he really was heavily intoxicated and the mirror he punched and broke was real.
8KbL TIL the sound effects for the alien language in District 9 were made by rubbing a pumpkin
e0GP6 TIL the Dog Whisperer’s pit bull allegedly mauled Queen Latifah’s dog to death and mauled a Junior Olympics gymnast out of contention
NXOWJ TIL the Sateré-Mawé tribe use bullet ant stings in a warrior rite where boys wear gloves filled with hundreds of venomous ants for 10 minutes, causing paralysis, hallucinations, and days of shaking, and must endure this 20 times to complete initiation.