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TIL Mexican drug cartels are fighting over a multi-billion avocado industry.

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w64P TIL that the first casualty of the Battle of Hastings was William the Conqueror’s jester. He allegedly taunted the English army by juggling his sword and was promptly killed for the display.
E1Qj0 TIL: Owning a cat can reduce the risk of heart attacks and strokes by more than a third.
DQNYY TIL that at the 1992 Winter Olympics Tonya Harding figure skated to a song called "People Are Still Having Sex." The non-instrumental was a Billboard US dance chart #1 hit, featuring a narrator talking about the fact that people are still having sex.
xVJab TIL that 70,000 years ago a red dwarf named Scholz’s Star and it’s brown dwarf companion passed through the Oort Cloud and came less than a light year from earth.