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TIL that Ed O'Neill (guy who played Al Bundy) is also a black belt in Jiu-Jitsu

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1akoO TIL the first known appearance of the phrase "Taco Tuesday" is in the October 16, 1933, edition of the El Paso Herald-Post, in an advertisement for the White Star Cafeteria at the St. Regis Hotel.
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