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TIL that "sweet paprika" and "paprika" are the same thing.
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TIL a mother bear in a Chinese bile farm killed her cub and then herself because of the unbearable (no pun intended) and inhumane conditions they were subjected to.
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TIL that the first person convicted of speeding was going 8 mph (13 km/h). In 1896 Walter Arnold drove his horse-less carriage through the village of Paddock Wood, Kent, at more than four times the speed limit.
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TIL that in 1938, a physicist proposed an exact number for the total number of protons in the observable universe.
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TIL There are generally two definitions of "literally": one which is to take something in a literal sense or manner, the second which is to take things figuratively. It's been defined this way for hundreds of years.
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TIL that after Henry VIII was unhorsed in a jousting competition, his second wife Anne Boleyn was so shocked, that she miscarried a male child at 15 weeks. This all occurred on the day of Henry's first wife Catherine of Aragon's funeral - January 29th 1536.