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TIL that the capsaicin in chili’s comes from the white flesh not the seeds.

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WPaB TIL of Joe Angelo who saved George S. Patton’s life in WW1, went broke during the Depression, joined the Bonus Army Protests of 1932 where he encountered Patton commanding troops to quell the protests. He approached Patton to sway him, Patton pretended to not know who he was and had him removed.
Mvx8 TIL in 1957 the BBC aired an April fools hoax about spaghetti grows on trees. Some viewers afterwards contacted the BBC for advice on growing their own spaghetti trees.
VMLP8 TIL that the Olympic flag's colors are always red, black, blue, green, and yellow rings on a field of white. This is because at least one of those colors appears on the flag of every nation on the planet.
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