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TIL Jamie Brewer from American Horror Story persuaded Texas senators to abolish the word “retarded” from state legislation.

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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.
QKge TIL Heath Ledger’s portrayal of “The Joker” scared Michael Cain so much, he forgot his lines.
WkkJ9 TIL Founder or Little Caesars Pizza Mike Ilitch's first philanthropic efforts was the Little Caesars Love Kitchen, established in 1985. The traveling restaurant was formed to feed the hungry and assist with food provisions during natural disasters.
VBd5Z TIL that, by 1730, on the Philadelphia commodities exchange, the listed price of saffron was equal to that of gold
KYAjE TIL that hard drugs are detectable in your urine for LESS time than marijuana