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TIL that if you type “Bacon Number” and any actor’s name into Google, it will tell you their degrees of separation. It is difficult to get above 2.

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M71Wm TIL Canadian cable-TV music network MuchMusic refused to air Warrant's "Cherry Pie" music video on the grounds that it was "offensively sexist".
MeldV TIL: Many Native Americans consider the national holiday of Thanksgiving Day as a reminder of the genocide and continued suffering of the Native American peoples. Participants in the National Day of Mourning honor Native ancestors and the struggles of Native peoples to survive today.
VM7nG TIL that maple syrup has more nutritional value, less calories and less sugar than honey.
Ookb4 TIL: The US Navy uses a fuel for some torpedoes called Otto Fuel II. It is highly toxic and on the EPA's National Priorities List. If exposed you can have chest pain and tachycardia years later.
e0LLD TIL the unit of speed the knot, used extensively throughout the world in aviation, weather, and nautical contexts, comes from literal knots of the "common log" device. This 17th century device was a coil of rope with uniformly spaced knots, attached to a piece of wood shaped like a slice of pie.