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TIL that the phrase "Taco Tuesday" is trademarked by Taco John's, a restaurant in the US midwest and north.

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XjpR TIL that one night comedian Artie Lange tried to commit suicide by drinking a bottle of bleach, stabbing himself in the stomach nine times, and slitting his own wrists…and survived
dklZ TIL a polar bear is going “insane” in an Argentinian zoo and is not scheduled for relocation, even after another polar bear has died months earlier due to an heat stroke
xVayo TIL Uruguay's world cup player Luis Suárez has bitten three opponents under high pressure situations. He doesn't know why he does it.
LOV TIL Lincoln grew his beard after an 11-year-old girl wrote him a letter - “All the ladies like whiskers and they would tease their husbands to vote for you and then you would be President.”
4kDWo TIL there can be no avante gard art without direct threats to you in particular. that is right, you. you.