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TIL chilli peppers are used to make paint for ships to prevent barnacles from settling on them. This is a better alternative than toxic paint and is used because barnacles can make a ship use up to 30% more fuel.

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N78ZP TIL Adolf Hitler had a ‘pet' alligator named Saturn who died only recently in a Russian Zoo
rR4Me TIL of Ken Hechtman who as a student at Columbia stole Uranium 238 was expelled. Then proceeded to break into Area 51, Yucca Flat Test Site, and was present at Timothy McVeigh’s execution. After 9/11 he entered Afghanistan illegally and was captured by the Taliban.
Brydr TIL Ronald Reagan's pet name for his wife Nancy was "Mommie Poo Pants"
QNga9 TIL: The hand is a non-SI unit of measurement of length standardized to 4 in (101.6 mm), used to measure the height of horses in many English-speaking countries, including the USA.
R5rJw TIL that Daniel Day-Lewis was Peter Jackson's first choice for playing Aragorn in LOTR.