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TIL: In 2008, 11 out of every million babies born in America were named Bacon

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rRQx0 TIL Sean Connery's 2000 movie "Finding Forrester" inspired the creation of YTMND, after its creator saw a trailer for the movie, in which Sean Connery says the line "You're the man now, dog!"
x57g TIL there’s a facility in Dallas called The Anger Room where you can pay to smash things up. They have different settings and you can select different packages with which to work out your frustrations.
9Yo7m TIL about mud cookies that made from dirt mixed with salt and vegetable shortening or fat. People eat them as a way to stave off starvation in one of the poorest country on Earth, Haiti.
ne4Eo TIL There are classes in Japan that teach kids how to use the Soroban abacus to develop faster skills in arithmetic. After a few years they no longer even need to use a real abacus to perform fast mental calculations since they can already visualize an image of it