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TIL green and red peppers are not distinct varieties; rather, green peppers are simply immature versions of red peppers.

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Mo8V TIL out of the roughly 80 people in the world who have broken the 10 second barrier in the 100 meter sprint, only four of them are not of West African heritage and only one of them is white
rNYRx TIL that the 1976 NFL team, The Tampa Bay Buccaneers, by season's end, had 21 players on injury reserve. Of those 21 players, 18 of them required knee surgery.
aaWJ TIL - A peanut grows underground, but peanuts are not attached to the roots of the plant. Peanut plants flower above ground; a budding ovary grows down to penetrate the soil and produce a peanut.
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