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TIL that there are still 3.5 Million dial up AOL users

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BrK6x TIL there is a chemical compound 1000 times hotter than capsaicin, resiniferatoxin, a naturally occurring chemical found in cacti. Ingestion can cause severe swelling, permanent loss of sensation, serious injury, or even death.
VBy5B TIL "Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe" is a 1980 documentary film in which the filmmaker fulfills a bet he made to eat a shoe if a colleague completed a film. He boiled the shoe in garlic and stock and ate it at the film premiere.
e0rmJ TIL Owing to their remoteness, the islands of New Zealand were the last large habitable lands to be settled by humans. Between about 1280 and 1350, Polynesians began to settle in the islands, and then developed a distinctive Māori culture.
OG1W7 TIL Takuya Kimura would likely not have been cast as Howl (Ghibli) if his manager Hiromu Kitagawa didn't take the Shinkansen to an earlier-than-planned press conference in 1985, avoiding Japan Airlines flight 123.
eb66 TIL of a french scientist who accidentally killed 45% of the rabbits in europe because he was tired of rabbits eating his garden.