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TIL That the film "The Killing Fields" cast a real life survivor of the Cambodian Genocide. Hang S. Ngor survived three terms in Cambodian Prison camp by eating insects. He went on to win an Academy Award for supporting actor. His fate ended by being murdered my an LA street gang in 1996.

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x49D TIL Bill Murray considers the movie Kung Fu Hustle a supreme achievement of the modern age in terms of comedy.
Y7R7W TIL that Cuckoo bumblebees are brood parasitic and do not make nests or form colonies; their queens aggressively invade the nests of other bumblebee species, kill the resident queens and then lay their own eggs, which are cared for by the resident workers.
9mXp TIL: When Albert Einstein published his Theory of General Relativity, the New York Times sent their golfing correspondent to interview him.
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