AUSTIN, Texas — Bacon saves lives and fuels astronauts. Really.
You may only think of bacon as the food of the Internet gods, but this sizzling slab of porky deliciousness does more than make your belly happy. Bacon has landed on the moon, distracted Canadians from sex and helped America triumph in World War II. (Some of these might be *slight* exaggerations.)
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The #5facts team traveled to SXSW 2014 to serve up tasty tidbits all about bacon.
Spoiler alert: This week's episode includes a brief, albeit amazing, cameo by film and television superstar Kevin Bacon. Six degrees that, fools.
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