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TIL that putting the suffix “azo” on the end of any noun in Spanish means to hit something with it.

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0dwmA TIL Aaron Taylor-Johnson (star of Kick-Ass) married his now wife after they met on set, he was 18 and she was 42 at the time.
gMM0A TIL Actress Anne Dudek played characters in both “Friends” and “How I Met Your Mother” where she gets dumped on her birthday a total of three times. Once by Mike (Paul Rudd, Friends) and twice by Ted Mosby (Josh Radnor, HIMYM)
P1jvL TIL Simón Bolívar, born into Venezuela’s wealthy elite, voluntarily gave up his fortune and freed his own slaves to lead independence wars against colonial powers, becoming an enduring icon revered by leftist militias across South America today
v17M8 TIL in Belgium and France, Farmers still recover tens of thousands of unexploded shells and ordinance From WW1 that get pushed up by normal ground shifting (frost thrust, etc) and plowed up in farming fields. They call it "The Iron Harvest". They expect this to continue for hundreds of years.
RW01 TIL that one of the most famous actresses of the silent film era in the US was Alla Nazimova, originally from Russia. She had romantic affairs with a number of other actresses and coined the use of the phrase “sewing circle” to refer to closeted lesbian or bisexual actresses of her day.