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TIL That the English language recipe for Guacamole was presented by...a pirate

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x6MOk TIL that after Surya Bonaly fell during her routine at the 1998 Winter Olympics and realized she wouldn’t win a medal, she performed an illegal backflip and became the first figure skater to land one on a single blade in Olympic competition.
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