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When multiple truckloads full of avocados were about to go bad in Philadelphia, word spread quickly through the local community.
Hoping to reduce the amount of food waste – and knowing people's affinity for the nutritious green fruit – the nonprofit Sharing Excess hosted an event to give away as many free avocados as they could.
And boy, did people show up.
🥑 Avogeddon is here... More than 10,000 people lined up to get their free case of 'cados. By the end of the day, ten staff members and a handful of volunteers had distributed 444,672 avocados, with another 153,600 sent to local food banks😳.
Airbnb is in the process of choosing ten recipients for their $10,000,000 "OMG!" Fund.
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