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TIL Paprika is made from Bell Pepper

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oRpMK TIL Todd Field, director and writer of Tár, helped create the first batch of Big League Chew bubble gum
Wkr7N TIL that popping a pimple in the ominously dubbed "triangle of death" area of your face could lead to brain infection.
N1v1 TIL that Hugh Hefner is credited for breaking the color barrier in stand up comedy when he hired African American comedian Dick Gregory to perform at the Playboy Club in Chicago.
KOE86 TIL of Operation Moolah, a 1953 USAF effort to obtain a combat capable Soviet MiG-15 jet by rewarding any defecting Communist pilot 100k cash. The person who won it didn't even know it was being offered.
KJQR TIL that German architect Herman Sörgel had a plan to build an enormous dam across the Strait of Gibraltar to lower the sea level of the Mediterranean Sea by up to 200 m to colonize new territories and produce huge amounts of hydroelectricity.