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TIL Elvis was an Actual 8th Degree Black Belt in Karate

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Lnjv TIL In 1982, evolutionary biologist Daniel H. Janzen concluded that the avocado is an example of an ‘evolutionary anachronism’, a fruit adapted for ecological relationship with now-extinct large mammals.
QWY6 TIL there was a man so dedicated to April Fools, he flew hundreds of tires into a dormant volcano in Alaska and set them on fire. Fooling the local populace, and coast guard into thinking the volcano was active.
VMaMm TIL the Vietnamese word for honey, "mật ông," is widely accepted by linguists to be related to the English word "mead," as the Vietnamese word came from Chinese, which in turn, got it from the now-extinct Indo-European Tocharian language once spoken in present-day NW China.
x6Xn0 TIL that in 1980, a bomb went off in the train station in Bologna, killing 85 people.
R5pp4 TIL that when swallowing, the tongue elevates to push food back into the pharynx.