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TIL: Red bell peppers are just ripe green bell peppers.

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lP5K TIL after winning the 1962 European Cup the Benfica coach Béla Guttmann allegedly cursed the Lisbon based club for denying him a pay rise “Not in a hundred years from now will Benfica ever win a European Cup”. They have since reached six European Cup Finals but lost all of them.
Oodm7 TIL Henry VIII may have been a carrier for the rare Kell blood antigen that would have caused his wives’ antibodies to attack their Kell-positive fetuses, resulting in neonatal death
MAlb TIL that at its peak, the British Empire became the largest empire to have ever existed.
kJGb5 TIL that there are two opposite 'colour schemes' for boat directions in the world: one where red marks starboard, and green marks port; and one where it is the opposite.
EXQp TIL millions of sunflowers soak up nuclear radiation in Fukushima after scientists discover sunflowers can ‘clean up’ nuclear waste in soil!