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

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7rgWb TIL about Rudolph Diesel: when he invented the Diesel engine, he envisioned local communities growing crops to run their engines and making themselves entirely self-sufficient. Today, virtually all diesel engines run on petroleum from the ground by multinational oil companies in a globalized market.
Y7yjP TIL that there was a Viking king who ruled as the King of England for about 5 weeks.
b69p7 TIL President Rutherford B. Hayes remembered in the US mostly for being the first president to lose the popular vote and win the electoral vote, is remembered very fondly in Paraguay for his help in settling a territorial dispute that ensured "its survival as a country"
R57a9 TIL: The number three killer of moose in North America is killer whales, after grizzly and black bears.
Z8LRR TIL North Korea started to attempt to emulate certain aspects of China’s economic reform policies in 1980s, but both Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il felt great hostility toward China after Deng Xiaoping launched China on the path of pursuing market-oriented “socialism with Chinese characteristics”