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TIL Jalapeños and Bell Peppers are the same species

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0XM5 TIL Winston Churchill and Mahatma Gandhi were enemies. Churchill favored letting Gandhi die if he went on a hunger strike, and during the Bengal famine of 1943 responded to urgent requests to divert food supplies to India with a telegram asking, if food was so scarce, “why Gandhi hadn’t died yet”.
grOV7 TIL that Wayne Gretzky is 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 6th, 7th, 9th, 10th, and 11th for most points in an NHL season
XE07E TIL a South African political party formed in 2008 under the name "The National Party". This just happens to be the same name as the party famous for establishing Apartheid in South Africa. The party claims to have no relation to the original National Party of Apartheid.
X4XE TIL that the honey badger and the honeyguide bird share a symbiotic relationship in which the bird guides the badger to nearby beehives. The badger will then break open the beehive and allow the bird to share in the booty.
wreo TIL that Ratko Mladić, or the “Butcher of Bosnia”, was most likely highly influenced by the apparent ‘suicide’ of his daughter in committing the “worst crime on European soil since the WWII”: the Srebrenica Massacre where 8,400 people died