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TIL Sriracha sauce has never been advertised. The company prefers to let the sauce’s legend spread by word of mouth.

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57Jn TIL that within a week after the “Raising the Flag at Iwo Jima” picture was taken. Half of the men in the picture were killed in combat.
JydV TIL the word “avocado” comes from the Nahuatl word āhuacatl meaning “testicle” because of the likeness between the fruit hanging on the tree and the bodypart.
16WJX TIL people older than 75 years who have cognitive abilities as good as someone in their 20s and 30s are called superagers. A lot of their superaging comes from life-long exercise, connection with nature, and life-long mental activities. Robert De Niro, Rusin Bond, and Dadi Bhagwani have superaged.
OZY TIL - That the highest score ever in a football game occurred in 1916 when Georgia Tech defeated Cumberland 222-0
6mVm TIL the Philadelphia Phillies’ triple-A team, the Iron Pigs, has an award-winning urinal video game. It’s point and shoot.