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TIL Jalepenos are less spicy because of the popularity of a special breed of jalepeno that is low spice, but reliably big and shiny

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yQvMX TIL that although being a giant box office success, movie theater business was less enthused about the movie "A Quiet Place" because the ambiance of the movie was such that any type of loud eating was shamed leading to people not buying any food. Cinemas normally earn more from food than tickets.
D1ZgP TIL as a kid, Ice-T had his bike stolen. He told his father about it; he simply shrugged and said: "Well, then, you ain't got no bike." Ice-T then stole parts from various bicycles and assembled "three or four weird-looking, brightly-painted bikes" from the parts. His father never even noticed.
loO65 TIL heiress Ann Cooper Hewitt sued her mother and two surgeons in the 1930s for sterilising her during an appendectomy after declaring her a "moron", so that her mother could claim her inheritance if she died childless. She lost.
E1p0x TIL USA spent about 24 billion dollars on the “Saturn-Apollo” program until 1969, which would correspond to the sum of about 150 billion dollars today. It was the price to pay to make history, for the first people on the Moon to be American astronauts.