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TIL Chipotle peppers are just mature smoked jalapenos

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ZXK4 TIL that the only person who is allowed alcohol in the Houses of Parliament is the Chancellor of the Exchequer, who is allowed to drink whilst announcing the annual Budget.
K4kR TIL of the HMS Black Joke, which was previously a Brazilian slave ship called the Henriquetta. It was captured by the Royal Navy and repurposed to chase down slave ships, ultimately freeing hundreds of slaves during her five-year career.
6E00l TIL the Sovient Union developed a nuclear weapon so power that not even they were willing to test it at full capacity. The Tsar Bomba was the largest nuclear bomb ever tested in the earth's atmosphere, having a mushroom cloud spanning over 40 miles (64km) and a yield of 57 million tons of TNT.
X0mgk TIL the word for Pennsylvania and "penis" is the same in Cantonese
PYbnG TIL that the renowned Conestoga wagon, the backbone of any Oregon Trail playthrough, was almost never used by westward settlers as it was too heavy to pass the soft prairie trails.