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TIL the world’s hottest pepper is currently Pepper X from the PuckerButt Pepper Company

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69e1l TIL a woman flying from Manchester to Florida had a heart attack during the flight and when the stewardess asked for help 15 cardiologists came to save her. They were flying to a cardiology conference.
nWEJ7 TIL the story of Aladdin was not in the original Arabic version of One Thousand and One Nights (aka Arabian Nights). It was added by a French translator. The tale is set in a Chinese city, with Aladdin being Chinese himself.
ne4ZP TIL of Frances Gabe. In the 1980s, she built and patented the world’s only self-cleaning home. The patent contained 68 inventions. She died in obscurity last year at 101 years old.
waW8 TIL that in 2007, just before Australia’s federal election, it was revealed former PM Kevin Rudd had attended a New York strip club while serving in parliament, but a poll released shortly after showed that Rudd’s approval rating had INCREASED since the revelations. He went on to win the election.
mx0Xo TIL that 85 million years before butterflies existed, there was another insect that looked and acted exactly like a butterfly.