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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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gMJo7 TIL it's possible for complex communications with someone who is dreaming. Researchers of one study found two-way communications during REM sleep is possible when study participants (having confirmed lucid dreams) answered questions correctly via eye movement - even solving simple math equations.
NEw8 TIL The Boudin bakery in San Francisco, has been making sourdough bread for 166 years and every loaf of sourdough bread they make has a portion of the original “mother dough” from 1849 in it.
rRX9W TIL 1977 was the year of the last execution by guillotine --Hamida Djandoub in France
BgL8r TIL That There's An Uno Championship Tournament
XEQkj TIL there is a Coral Trafficking Task Force here in The Florida Keys.