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TIL Paprika is made from Bell Pepper

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dDMw9 TIL in 1926 Brazil had a president with name of Washington but was overthrown in a coup d'etat and removed from the presidency during Revolution of 1930,putting an end to Milk coffee politics and starting the Vargas Era in 1930.Washington served as the last president of the First Brazilian Republic
epZDE TIL Muhammad Ali dedicated his defeat of Joe Frazier in the 1975 boxing heavyweight championship to one of his favorite actors, Christopher Lee, best known at the time for playing Dracula & Bond villain Scaramanga
8e5D8 TIL about the Siege of Leningrad during WW2 - it went on for 872 days and led to ~1.5 million deaths from a prewar population of 3.4 million
N75EN TIL that actor Brian Blessed is a fully trained astronaut, having completed over 800 hours of 'space training' in Moscow, and "remains the number one civilian on the wait list for the International Space Station."
14VD TIL that Patrick Stewart voiced Emperor Uriel Septim VII, in the Elder Scrolls: Oblivion, and Sean Bean voiced his son, Emperor Martin Septim.