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TIL that jalapeños, cayennes, and habaneros can lower high cholesterol, protect from heart disease and cancers, relieve pain, AND encourage weight loss because of a chemical called capsaicin

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oBmr7 TIL Kurt Russell has been dating Goldie Hawn since 1986. Hawn's children include actors Oliver and Kate Hudson, who consider Russell more of a father than their actual biological father.
1YO8 TIL that because Boeing expected supersonic passenger airliners to render the 747 and other subsonic airliners obsolete, they designed the 747 with a hump to allow the aircraft to be easily converted for cargo by installing a front cargo door below the flight deck.
jNxGR TIL: By the time the last wooly mammoths went extinct, the Great Pyramid of Giza was already 500 years old.
pXYp TIL of Moe Berg, a professional baseball player who served as a spy for the U.S. during WWII. He attended a lecture by Werner Heisenberg under the orders to shoot Heisenberg if he made any indication that the Germans were close to making an atomic bomb.
ZpWDa TIL of a 1950's doctor who transfused his sick patient's blood into his own body to understand her condition better. Impressive and scary!