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TIL that the special seaweed that tastes like Bacon when fried or smoked, Dulse, is already available in some stores in the smoked variety

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Eg9BX TIL "OK" is an acronym for "Oll Korrect," a purposeful misspelling of "All Correct," as a joke in 1800s newspapers.
jnAR TIL an executive wanted to change the title of “Back to the Future” to be “Spaceman from Pluto” as he didn’t think it would be successful. Director Zemeckis asked help from Spielberg, who wrote a note back telling the executive he had a great sense of humor. The idea was never mentioned again.
oBA1R TIL that more than two decades before his house arrest for his sympathetic treatment of the Tiananmen Square protestors, former CCP General Secretary Zhao Ziyang was removed from his official positions and paraded through Guangzhou in a dunce cap.
x8J0 TIL Warren Buffett has only sent one e-mail in his entire life… to Jeff Raikes at Microsoft and it ended up in a court in Minneapolis so he’s over it.
GANQ1 TIL of Steve Leech, a milkman who was doing his rounds when he saw a shop on fire. He used 320 pints of milk to put out the fire, saving 7 other stores. He received the award for "Hero Milkman of the Millennium"