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TIL there are bacon avocados which “have a creamy bacon taste with a nut-like afterflavor.” Where have you been all my life?

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kOpDg TIL about Tony Momoh, a journalist and one-time Nigerian minister of information and culture (1986 - 1990). He is the 165th child of his father, King Momoh I of Auchi, who had 48 wives and about 245 children.
x65r5 TIL that symbols to denote irony or sarcasm in print have been around since at least the 1500s
bvk9 TIL that there are dozens of houses in Detroit for sale at $1 a piece.
gMKW TIL Abercrombie & Fitch offered Mike “The Situation” Sorrentino a “substantial payment” if he stopped wearing Abercrombie-branded clothes, stating “We are deeply concerned that Mr. Sorrentino’s association with our brand could cause significant damage to our image.”
dDnrK TIL legendary kids' TV powerhouse CINAR was found to be defrauding Canadian taxpayers for government grants under Canadian Content rules by falsely crediting shows as being written by Canadian employees working for them, when the shows were really written by Americans.