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TIL Paprika is made from Bell Pepper

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MeyvK TIL Suffragettes were not entirely peaceful. After police beat female protestors on Black Friday, killing two, women started carrying guns and firebombing homes.
KQYw TIL Leó Szilárd, physicist directly responsible for the creation of the Manhattan Project, wanted to have a test explosion that could be witnessed by Japanese observers for them to surrender while sparing lives
MeO1K TIL: “Judas Goats” are feral goats fitted with GPS. In Australia, the Judas goats, & their natural herding extinct, lead shooters to feral goat herds, so the populations can be controlled.
gMw1W TIL a bear in a state park got into campers’ coolers and used claws & teeth to puncture beer cans; Fish & Wildlife Sgt. Bill Heinck said the bear tried a can of Busch, ignored the rest, then drank about 36 Rainier beers. They caught it a live trap baited with donuts, honey, open cans of Rainier.
GY4mN TIL so many Germans moved to the United States in the 1850s that, by 1855, New York had the third largest German population of any city in the world. Only those of Berlin and Vienna were larger.