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TIL a chipotle pepper is just a smoked jalepeno pepper

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yQbkJ TIL Of Robert Campbell, a World War One soldier who was a German prisoner, he learned that his mother was dying, and wrote to the Kaiser, asking to be released. His request was granted, with the condition that he had to return. Campbell spent a week with his mother, then returned.
Wkd88 TIL that no new chemical element was discovered in an US laboratory since Seaborgium (Z=106) in 1974; Livermorium (Z=116) and Tennessine (Z=117) are named after American toponyms, but they were actually discovered in Dubna, Russia
YpLXB TIL that Abraham Lincoln is believed to have both written and delivered the Gettysburg Address while suffering from smallpox.
6QYZ TIL the oleander is the official flower of the city of Hiroshima because it was the first to bloom again after the explosion of the atomic bomb in 1945.
LpPZ TIL that Joan of Arc’s companion was a paedophilic serial killer whose victim count was in the 800s