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TIL that the poor in Haiti have to resort to eating cookies made of dirt just to give themselves the feeling of being full.

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YppP7 TIL the movie "An Alan Smithee Film: Burn Hollywood Burn" was a satire of movies which are so bad that the director refuses credit and uses the pseudonym "Alan Smithee". The real-life director of the movie was so unhappy with it that he took his name off and it became a real Alan Smithee film.
Ypv6W TIL Woody Harrelson's father was a hitman convicted of murdering a judge.
9Pkp TIL there is a species of deer with fangs.
p8Knb TIL that bees can be trained to detect diseases, like cancer, in their early stages by sensing the disease in the patient's breath due to their extremely strong sense of smell
AGYn TIL that Maxamillian Kolbe was a Polish priest who volunteered to die in the place of a man in Auschwitz after he overheard him cry out for his wife and children. The man he saved, Mr. Gajowniczek, died in 1995 at the age of 93.