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TIL The hottest curry on earth is a British curry made in Grantham, Lincolnshire. Known as ‘The Widower’ it is so hot it can make you hallucinate.

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x6aB5 TIL that when filming Top Gear's "Bolivia Special", producer Andy Wilman received a death threat from a local drug lord, when he went to the drug lord's house to ask him to turn down his loud music so the crew could get some sleep in their nearby hotel
YJAB TIL prostitutes in Chicago are more likely to have sex with a police officer than be arrested by one.
lgB TIL mediaeval theologians held that part of the pleasure of Heaven was watching the suffering of Hell.
gMQG8 TIL that 7-foot tall American boys have a 17% chance to play in NBA
b9OPp TIL "Roses are red/Violets are blue" dates back to 1590 with the lines: "In a fresh fountaine, farre from all mens vew//She bath'd her brest, the boyling heat t'allay;// She bath'd with roses red, and violets blew,// And all the sweetest flowres, that in the forrest grew."