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TIL Chili peppers are native only to the Americas. India and Thailand didn’t have spicy food before Columbus

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v16DR TIL Tibetans practice 'sky burials' where bodies are chopped up and left to be picked clean by vultures 'who take the dead to Heaven'
DjLr TIL that the story of the Mexican hero Zorro was based on the life of the Irishman William Lamport from County Wexford, he was sent to the Mexico to spy on the colonial viceroy there but ended up inciting rebellion against Spain after seeing the corruption and injustices of the inquisition.
69lk8 TIL that wild panda populations can have reproductive rates comparable to some American black bear populations, which are thriving. Pandas are mistakenly believed to be poor breeders due to their the disappointing reproductive performance while captive.
vPvOK TIL about Toivi Blatt and the 1943 Jewish uprising at the Sobibor death camp in Poland, one of three camps built for Operation Reinhardt. During the armed revolt by the Jewish prisoners, the Nazis were overpowered allowing several hundred to escape to freedom. The camp was never opened again.
E1LVd TIL that electronic television was first successfully demonstrated in San Francisco on September 7, 1927. The system was designed by Philo Taylor Farnsworth, a 21-year-old inventor who had lived in a house without electricity until he was 14.