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TIL avocados used to be called “alligator pears.”

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8abwa TIL that instead of doing a traditional press conference to talk about his Super Bowl XLI show, Prince put on a mini-concert instead
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b6LwE TIL that there are 4 times more chickens in the world than humans. In fact, if all these chickens formed a line, they would circle the world 200 times.