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TIL that the creator of the Carolina Reaper (the hottest pepper in the world) claims to have unreleased peppers that are more than twice as hot.

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OogvR TIL Jules Verne's shelved 1863 novel "Paris in the Twentieth Century" predicted gas-powered cars, fax machines, electric street lighting, maglev trains, the record industry, the internet. His publisher deemed it pessimistic and lackluster. It was discovered in 1989 and published 5 years later.
xVyD7 TIL Jeff Goldblum was almost the voice of Siri.
VvB TIL that Mike Judge, creator of King of the Hill and Beavis and Butthead, graduated college with a Bachelor’s of Science in Physics.
R7xZQ TIL that behind the feeling of "anger" is always any sort of pain
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