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

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8N9V TIL that “nauseated” and “nauseous” are not interchangeable: “I am nauseated” means “I feel sick,” but “I am nauseous” literally means “I cause a feeling of sickness.”
1aBkd TIL the Greenland Shark has the longest known lifespan of all vertebrates, living for at least 300-400 years. A sample captured in 1952 was concluded to have been born between 1504 and 1744.
R5Rx9 TIL in the 2006 documentary "This Film is Not Yet Rated" the director hired detectives to uncover the identities of the MPAA ratings & appeal boards, revealing that the former received very little training for rating films, and the latter consisted of studio/theater execs - as well as two clergymen
yp1l TIL Stephen King wrote a handwritten review for Harry Potter & the Order of the Phoenix in which he said Dolores Umbridge was the best fictional villain since Hannibal Lecter.
wLBO8 TIL That the Norwegian mathematician Niels Henrik Abel died of Tuberculosis at the age of 26 and did most of his major work in a span of about 7 years while living in poverty. The equivalent of the Nobel prize in the field of mathematics; the Abel prize, is named after him.