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9YKd6 TIL The native, undomesticated variety of the avocado is known as a criollo, it's small, has dark black skin, contains a large seed. It probably coevolved with extinct megafauna. The avocado tree has a long history of cultivation in Central and South America, likely beginning as early as 5,000 BCE.
kJ41B TIL While filming "Orca" actor Richard Harris read a tabloid magazine that photographed his wife Ann Turkel on a beach with a younger man. He wanted to stop filming, fly to Malibu and kill them both. Harris relented when he got into a brawl with the film's screenwriter and gave him a black eye.
oR5WY TIL a 2016 study found that teens consistently overestimated the risk behaviors of their peers. In virtually every case, jocks & popular teens did not use more substances, have more sexual partners, or break the rules any more than all the other school kids. But the perception was they did much more
AZlB TIL when filming the chewing tobacco scene in The Sandlot, several of the kids actually got sick on the ride and were really throwing up
lgm7 TIL in 1925, Henry Ford told the NYT that ethyl alcohol is “the fuel of the future”. There is fuel in every bit of vegetable matter that can be fermented. There’s enough alcohol in one year’s yield of an acre of potatoes to drive the machinery necessary to cultivate the fields for a hundred years.“