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TIL John Cleese of Monty Python has the unique distinction of having turned down both a life peerage (barony) and a CBE (Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire), saying he felt the honor was “silly.“

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9YKd6 TIL The native, undomesticated variety of the avocado is known as a criollo, it's small, has dark black skin, contains a large seed. It probably coevolved with extinct megafauna. The avocado tree has a long history of cultivation in Central and South America, likely beginning as early as 5,000 BCE.
7rawL TIL the commonly-acknowledge health goal "10,000 steps a day" has no real medical merit other than walking is good for you and it's a well rounded number.
wol4E TIL about familects, that one special language (or "microdialect") created by and shared between two or more people in a close relationship
Gw9E TIL that Lee Fierro, who played Alex Kintner’s mom in Jaws, went to a restaurant in Martha’s Vineyard in 1999. After seeing an “Alex Kintner Burger”, she mentioned that she played the mother in that movie. The manager who went out to meet her was none other than Jeff Voorhees, who played Alex.
VMJRD TIL that in the the Milky Way Galaxy alone, there are at least 25 billion places where life could exist.