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TIL: Chipotle peppers are simply smoked jalapeños; it takes 10 lbs of jalapeños to create 1 lb of chipotle

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X0B6 TIL the Greek city of Helike sank in an earthquake in 373 BC, and all of the inhabitants died. Over time, it was silted over and was thought to be legendary until it was rediscovered in 2001.
grAYX TIL researchers discovered the oldest known sentence written in the first alphabet, Canaanite, on a head-lice comb believed by scientists to have been made around 1700 BCE. The inscription on the luxury item reads "may this tusk root out the lice of the hair and the beard."
ANg74 TIL of Elizabeth Jennings Graham, an African-American woman who, in 1854, successfully sued NYC's Third Avenue Railway for denying her a seat on horsecar helping to lead to the desegregation of the city’s public transportation
oRMAL TIL in 2021, scientists discovered Eumillipes persephone, a millipede with as many as 1,306 legs, found deep underground in the Australian outback, which makes this species the animal with the most legs on Earth and the first millipede discovered to have 1,000 legs or more.
DPpV TIL Argentina has a radio station that is broadcast from a mental institution in Buenos Aires and interviews the patients. It has 12 million listeners and is actually called called “Crazy Radio”