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TIL Not only does the word avocado come from the ancient Aztec word for testicle, but the word guacamole quite literally translates to testicle sauce
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TIL compared to average shoppers, chefs are more likely to buy generic store brands for sugar, baking soda, and other kitchen staples
Americans are wasting about $44 billion a year on name brands, when they could be buying the exact same products if they switched to cheaper store brands, says a new paper by
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TIL there is a hypothesis that life originated on Mars and was transported to Earth on meteorites
Life may have started on Mars before arriving on Earth, a major scientific conference has heard.
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TIL that a prison restaurant staffed by inmates was recently voted the best restaurant in Cardiff, Wales on Tripadvisor.
The Clink, a prison restaurant in Cardiff staffed by inmates willing to change their life around, has recently been voted the best in the Welsh capital.
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TIL that, Daniel Radcliffe was voted one of the top10 most talented, intelligent funny, and gorgeous Jewish men in the world, despite not being Jewish
Daniel Jacob Radcliffe (born 23 July 1989)[1] is an English actor who rose to prominence as the title character in the Harry Potter film series. He made his acting debut at 10 years of age in BBC One's 1999 television film David Copperfield, followed by his cinematic debut in 2001's The Tailor of Panama. At age 11, he was cast as Harry Potter in the first Harry Potter film, and starred in the series for 10 years until the release of the eighth and final film in 2011.
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TIL Elvis Presley only ever failed one class, music.
Elvis Aaron Presley[a] (January 8, 1935 – August 16, 1977) was an American singer and actor. Regarded as one of the most significant cultural icons of the 20th century, he is often referred to as "the King of Rock and Roll", or simply, "the King".
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TIL that when asked what his IQ was, Stephen Hawking said "I have no idea. People who boast about their IQ are losers."
When Stephen Hawking was diagnosed with motor neurone disease at age 21, doctors thought he'd only survive a few more years. But the theoretical physicist defied the odds.
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TIL all existing JFK assassination related documents will be made public by 2017
The President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992, or the JFK Records Act, is a public law passed by the United States Congress, effective October 26, 1992.[1] It directed the National Archives and Records Administration to establish a collection of records to be known as the President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection. It stated that the collection shall consist of copies of all U.S. government records relating to the assassination of President John F....
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TIL:Universal Music Group deducted artist's iTunes royalties for costs such as "packaging" and "breakages" on digital download Eminem sued them
If you are a recording artist or a manager and have been distributing music on iTunes under a deal with one of the big record labels, pay attention. F.B.T. Productions in Detroit, the producers who h
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TIL that a man tried to cash a cheque he got in some junk mail for $95,000 and the bank did it!
It was a cheque, made out in my name, for $95,093.35 and it came in a junk-mail letter from a get-rich-quick company. It was worthless, meant only as a financial tease, a lip-licking come-on. “This is how much money you could soon be making.” What
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TIL: That there's a blue planet that rains glass 63 light years away.
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TIL there is a Truman Show-type village in the Netherlands created for dementia patients.
Travel to the town of Weesp in the Netherlands and you can find a gated village called Hogeweyk. The village is making history as one of the top care facilities for people suffering with dementia. Hogeweyk’s progressive practices have caught the world’s attention. The vill…
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TIL the African Union intends to have a single, continent-wide currency modeled on the Euro. One proposed name for the currency is the "Afro."
Politics portal
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TIL that Time Warner Cable has a 97 Percent Profit Margin on High-Speed Internet
In our Petition for Investigation of Time Warner Cable (TWC) and Comcast, we point out that TWC's High-Speed Internet service has a 97 percent profit margin and a number of people asked how that statistic was derived. Simple. Time Warner Cable provides the information, (with some caveats).
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TIL in Fucking, Austria, the residents voted against changing the Town's name, the mayor said "Fucking is Fucking and it's going to stay Fucking"
Fucking (German pronunciation: [ˈfʊkɪŋ], rhymes with "booking"[2]) is an Austrian village[3] in the municipality of Tarsdorf,[4] in the Innviertel region of western Upper Austria. The village is 33 kilometres (21 mi) north of Salzburg, 4 kilometres (2.5 mi) east of the German border.
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NSFW TIL a guy in South Africa walked into a supermarket, strolled into the butchery area, swiped his neck across the meat saw, cutting off his head
Shocked butchery staff at the Richard's Bay Shoprite Checkers branch have received intensive counselling after witnessing a man cut off his own head using an electric meat saw.
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TIL Adam Sandler won both the worst actor and actress Razzie awards for his movie Jack and Jill
Jack and Jill is a 2011 American comedy film co-written, produced by, and starring Adam Sandler, Katie Holmes, and Al Pacino, and directed by Dennis Dugan, who has collaborated with Sandler on many of his films. It was distributed by Columbia Pictures and released on November 11, 2011.[4]
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TIL Martin Van Buren (b. 1782) was the first president born a US citizen
Find out more about the history of Martin Van Buren, including videos, interesting articles, pictures, historical features and more. Get all the facts on HISTORY.com
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TIL a Coca-Cola employee can get fired for drinking Pepsi on the job
NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - The big difference between drinking a Coke or a Pepsi could be a pink slip, as one Coke employee discovered Thursday.
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TIL that the Wacky Waving Inflatable Arm Flailing Tube Man was invented as an art project for the opening ceremony of the 1996 Summer Olympics
An airdancer is a large inflatable device comprising a long tube attached to a fan which causes the tube to move in a dancing or flailing motion; some variants may resemble humans with tube arms. Airdancers are generally called an inflatable tube or a moving figure, such as "windyman", "skydancer", "tube man" and "flyguy"; the phrase "Wacky Waving Inflatable Arm Flailing Tube Man" has also become a popular name for the decorations after originating in an episode of Family Guy
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