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TIL When we install the Facebook app they have permission to read our texts…

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e0vOD TIL that natural Paprika is actually very sweet, has absolutely no heat at all and it's flavour has been described as similar to a tomato. What makes it spicy is Cheyenne Pepper which is added during the production process.
78YvX TIL That the stunt of Jerry Lawler slapping Andy Kaufman on David Letterman was not revealed as a hoax until years later.
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VMJmQ TIL The ancient Greeks used to bake moon-shaped cakes to offer up to Artemis, goddess of the moon, as tribute. They decorated them with lit candles to make the cakes shine like the moon. Hence, the reason we light our birthday cakes on fire.
KYnw TIL Catholic priests were ordered to be celibate so that the church’s riches would not be “shared or inherited” away to the priests’ families.