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TIL green bell peppers are just unripe red bell peppers

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PY85G TIL that the doctor who figured out that washing hands greatly reduced the death rate of women after childbirth was viewed as a madman and later confined to an insane asylum where he died 2 weeks after.
6Eb4l TIL 'Democracy sausage' is the Australian term for sausage sandwiches sold at polling booths. In 1989 the liberal party leader was accused of bribing voters with democracy sausages after wearing a BBQ hat and apron and "being involved in the dissemination of sausages" at an election campaign.
Z8AeB TIL Fred Astaire started skateboarding in his 70's, got a lifetime membership to the Nat'l Skateboard Society, and broke his wrist skateboarding at age 78.
R7YD9 TIL a Colombian man died because a tapeworm inside him got cancer.
Alnw TIL That all British soldiers shot for desertion and cowardice in World War I were posthumously pardoned. In modern times it is believed that many of the soldiers were suffering the effects of shell shock. They are remembered by the Shot at Dawn Memorial.