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TIL: Maya Angelou directed one movie - 'Down in the Delta' - a well received film released in 1988

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ln6A TIL that pig rectum is almost indistinguishable from calamari, and is sometimes secretly used as a substitute or sold as “artificial calamari”.
Zd5Q TIL there is a forest in Germany that had trees planted in the shape of a swastika. The swastika is only visible during the spring and fall of each year. It went unnoticed until 1992.
YvaB TIL for April Fools Day in 1957, the BBC created a hoax in which they convinced the nation that spaghetti was grown from “spaghetti trees” in Italy and Switzerland.
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