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TIL that Bacon became a forced meme and went viral because the meat industry had a glut of pork belly and bribed restaurants to put bacon in everything.

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VMy1m TIL an AI generated portrait was sold for $432,500 at Christie's auction house in New York
wLNZM TIL of the "Delaware loophole", lowering a corporation's tax liability by shifting income to subsidiaries located in low or no-tax states to avoid including it in income subject to taxation in the taxing state,
p8dd4 TIL When Nikola Tesla showed in 1898 a radio controlled boat, people accused him of having a trained monkey driving it.
xVVRg TIL of John Hines, an Australian soldier, nicknamed the souvenir king.
lonXV TIL that the Orthodox churches in Ethiopia and Eritrea generally recognize ~80 books of the bible (compared to 66 for Protestants). This entire biblical canon has never been published together at once before, and some books are hard to obtain, even in churches in Ethiopia and Eritrea.