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TIL there is a curry so hot that it is higher on the Scoville Scale for hotness than tear gas. It’s also so hot that only ONE MAN on earth has been able to finish a full serving and that guy wandered around town hallucinating for ten minutes halfway through his dish

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lV01 TIL that in 2002, a woman was denied public assistance because a DNA test showed that her children weren’t hers. An attorney helped her prove that she had absorbed her twin in the womb, thus giving her two sets of DNA, and that her unborn twin was possibly the biological mother of her children.
yQMpw TIL 2Pac wrote his verse for Bone Thugs-N-Harmony's "Thug Luv" in 111 seconds.
DjeP TIL there was a competition between professional investors, teenagers, and Orlando the Cat to see who could earn the most money in the stock market during 2012. Orlando, with an increase of 10.8%, beat the investors (3.5%) and the teenagers (-3.2%) by throwing his toy mouse to select his stocks.
M7Rjb TIL that the average time between recessions has grown from about 2 years in the late 1800s to 5 years in the early 20th century to 8 years over the last half-century.
0deJL TIL in 2013 a surgeon in the UK was struck off and convicted of assault after branding his initials into two patients livers. It was only discovered when 1.6-inch (4cm) initials were discovered by another doctor on an organ that he had transplanted failed.