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TIL birds are unaffected by spiciness.

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kJeM7 TIL there is an actual project aiming to develop a sub gram nano spacecraft with cameras and all and send it to the Alpha Centauri star system with a travel speed of 1/5th of the speed of light
lMvA TIL that the first building in the world to ban smoking was the Old Government Building in Wellington, New Zealand in 1876. This was due to concerns about the threat of fire, as it is the second largest wooden building in the world.
e0arL TIL that Tic Tacs are allowed to be listed as "sugar free" by the FDA despite being approximately 90% sugar because each individual Tic Tac contains less than half a gram of sugar.
M7kXK TIL that fossilization is so unlikely that scientists estimate that less one-tenth of 1% of all the animal species that have ever lived have become fossils.
4k6wa TIL that in 2003, the chief officer of the German-owned cargo ship RMS Mülheim got into difficulties while on watch. His trousers caught in his chair mechanism and while trying to free himself he tripped and knocked himself unconscious. The ship grounded on rocks while he was out and later broke up