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TIL that the word “avocado” comes from the Aztec “ahuacacuahatl,” which translates to “testicle tree.”

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14kV TIL Secret Service paid cybercriminal Albert Gonzalez $75,000/year as salary to act as an informant, while he simultaneously ran his own multi-millon dollar credit card fraud empire.
KOR59 TIL The world is made by the left-brained (right handed), prefers denotative language, what is known, fixed, static, isolated, decontextualised, explicit. A right hemisphere (left handed) modus operandi would yield a changing, evolving, linked, implicit world, the living not the mechanical.
yVxBV TIL that the eight most visited museums in the US are either in NYC or DC
b9Oaa TIL of a sheep named Shrek, who hated getting his wool sheared. He escaped his enclosure and was on his own for 6 years. After being found and sheared his wool weighed 60 pounds, enough material to make 20 suits for men. All of his fleece was auctioned off to support medical charities for children.
b9LB0 TIL that cities used to have 'ugly laws.' People were fined $1 to $50 per day if they were deemed 'too ugly' to go out in public. The last Ugly Law wasn't rescinded in Chicago until 1974.