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TIL The Onion has been in existence for 26 years

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VMKgm TIL of Alexis Benoît Soyer (born 1810) who was one of the first “celebrity” chefs. In addition to creating recipes, he invented a stove for soldiers to use during the Crimean war, wrote books and pamphlets on cooking, and did a lot to help the suffering in Ireland during the potato famine.
1B4D TIL Chuck Norris supported California’s Prop 8 and opposes the National Day of Silence, an annual event honoring LGBT rights.
4k4KN TIL that the first vacuum cleaners were horse drawn
9wkd7 TIL: Redbull declared a man's plan to cross the Atlantic in 1m boat 'inspirational, but mad’ and declined to sponsor him.
gMeo7 TIL the wrestler “Stone Cold” Steve Austin almost died after falling in the shower from trying to moonwalk to ‘Michael Jackson’s - Bad’ and ended up having to call 9-1-1 to get him out.