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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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P18rJ TIL milk jugs have those circle indentations for structural support, lower production costs and to allow changes in volume.
OoDL7 TIL when the "Red Baron" was shot down and killed in combat, his enemies buried him with full military honors and a wreath that said: "To Our Gallant and Worthy Foe"
rNk9w TIL one of the proposed definitions for the meter was the seconds pendulum, which takes 1 second for each swing
XEGr6 TIL Concorde burned up 94 tonnes of fuel getting from London to New York and a whopping 2 tonnes simply taxiing onto the runway
VBG44 TIL the Forest Preserves of Cook County (est. 1914) holds more than 70,000 acres of land making it the oldest and largest preserve system of its kind in the United States.