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TIL that in 2011, a spicy curry eating contest in Edinburgh ended with two people having to be transported to the hospital

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5YW9D TIL that Julius Caesar almost started his career as a priest, which would have forbidden him from touching a horse, sleeping one night outside of Rome, or looking upon an army
5YrBQ TIL about Louis Le Prince, who mysteriously went missing, preventing him from revealing that he had invented the single-lens motion picture camera, long before Edison who is widely credited with the invention.
167Or TIL: In 1667, the Dutch traded the island of New Amsterdam to the British for the island of Banda Run in order to gain control over the nutmeg spice trade. The British renamed New Amsterdam to New York.
l7OpB TIL that the largest battle of the American Revolutionary War took place in Europe. America’s Spanish and French allies besieged Gibraltar, at one point attacking with 60,000 men, but were defeated by the 5,000 British defenders.
E1e1W TIL about Joseph Pujol (aka Le Petomane) who was a Fartiste. After swimming in the sea, he discovered an icy feeling in his stomach, and upon coming ashore, found water poring from his rectum. He discovered he had a special talent in contracting the muscles in his abdomen and could fart at will.