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TIL a chipotle pepper is just a smoked jalepeno pepper
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TIL that in 1986, Lake Nyos in Cameroon erupted a massive cloud of CO2 that killed a nearby village of 1700 people and 3500 livestock through asphyxiation.
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TIL Thomas Edison would give potential employees a bowl of soup during the interview, if they salted or peppered the soup before tasting it they wouldn't get the job. This was to test whether the employees had analytical minds and didn't make assumptions.
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TIL that architecture, painting, poetry, music, literature, all used to be part of the Olympic Games.
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TIL a small subset of people have a genetic mutation that makes them resistant to HIV/AIDS.
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TIL that because of Uranus’ axial tilt, it “rolls” around the sun like a marble. It’s poles each experience 42 years of light and 42 years of darkness during the summer and winter solstices.