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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