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Today I learned you can get skin burns from peppers.

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Q8rd TIL in 1968, a car driven by bank employees was pulled over by a motorcycle cop claiming the car had been rigged with a bomb. The cop got under the car to “defuse” the device. When the car started to smoke, everybody ran. Then the “cop” just drove the car away. The 300M Yen robbery remains unsolved
6woY TIL that the ‘root’ in root beer refers to the roots of the sassafras tree, an ingredient in early root beer recipes.
xVNb0 TIL Easter can land in March or April and that’s likely the reason North America doesn't have two set stat holidays each month
7gNL TIL that Canola is made from Rapeseed. Wanting to avoid the negative connotation of the word ‘rape’ the Rapeseed Association of Canada coined the new name from Canada (Can) and Oil (Ola).
yVWjw TIL about Project Plowshare, a US program for the development of techniques to use nuclear explosives for peaceful construction purposes. Proposed uses included widening the Panama Canal, excavate a roadcut in the Mojave Desert for the construction of I-40, and create an artificial harbor in Alaska