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TIL Mild bell peppers didn't exist before the 1920s

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VMPZZ TIL In the United States, some 50% of homes had garbage disposal units as of 2009, compared with only 6% in the United Kingdom and 3% in Canada
Anra TIL For every meth lab bust in Nevada, there are nearly 1500 in Indiana
L1vP TIL the City of Manchester in the UK has a “Gay Village”, which consists of a fully-gay supermarket, and the bars and clubs attract over 20,000 visitors per weekend.
jNlgp TIL that the Kingsmen song "Louie Louie" (which was investigated for indecency by the FBI for 31 months, which turned up nothing) did in fact contain swear word that was never detected by the FBI: the drummer audibly shouts "F***!" at approx. 0:55, when he dropped a drumstick during recording.
5YPbn TIL of Kelly, a dolphin whose trainers gave her fish for bringing them litter/dead gulls to clean her pool. She started hiding fish under a rock in her pool, then used fish to lure gulls which she brought to her trainers to get more fish. She taught her calf the strategy, who taught more calves.