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TIL: Ed O'Neil has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and it's in front of a shoe store.

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gvND TIL Bolivians, who have been living off of quinoa for centuries, can no longer afford the grain due to its recent explosion in popularity.
Br5Pr TIL of the “Bonnacon,” a Medieval legendary bull that sprayed caustic feces at its pursuers, burning them, because it supposedly had useless horns.
GA7DQ TIL that the Honeydew was introduced to China by American Vice President Henry A. Wallace, who donated melon seeds to the locals while visiting in the 1940s. As a result of Wallace's introduction of the crop, in China the melon is sometimes called "the Wallace".
ADdKl TIL Häagen Dazs’s name doesn’t mean anything - its founder wanted a Danish sounding brand name, as Denmark was known for its dairy products, despite the fact that such a word does not and cannot exist within Danish’s spelling system.
ep6Zb TIL That in the victorian era, corsets were not worn crushingly tight, but merely snug, and a lot of what we see is heavily altered