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TIL there is a bar in Key West with a “Bacon Happy Hour”, where a complimentary endless glass of crispy bacon comes with your order, even if you just get a beer.

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LkyGQ TIL that Nicholas Flamel (the character from the first Harry Potter book who had the sorcerer’s/philosopher’s stone) was a real person who was thought to be an alchemist who really had discovered the stone and thereby achieved immortality.
YpPxG TIL Minnesota Has Been Refusing to Return a Captured Confederate Flag to Virginia for More Than a Century
ePQ6 TIL that the only way to get hold of industrial musician Loke Rahbek’s album ‘The Wild Palmsthat’ is to send nudes to his email.
GJpJ TIL that the producers of The Jungle Book film originally considered Louis Armstrong for the voice of King Louie, but were worried that choosing a black actor to voice an ape would cause controversy.
j6kGX TIL Freeman Gosden and Charles Correll started a show on Chicago's WGN Radio in 1924 called Sam 'n' Henry. Successful, but wanting more money, they moved to WMAQ radio and renamed the same show Amos 'n' Andy. The two were on NBC and CBS radio for 28 years.