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TIL : Jalapeños were First Peppers in Space

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a5Nb TIL That there is a program called Rigs-to-Reef that transforms old oil rigs into reefs, and that there are over 3800 oil rigs on the coasts of Texas and Louisiana.
J1LlQ TIL 2024 is the year the US Dept of Health and Human Services banned hospitals from performing non-consensual breast, pelvic, prostate, and rectal exams for “educational and training purposes” by medical students and practitioners on patients under anesthesia.
QNdA9 TIL That the U.S. Supreme Court case of Dred Scott v. Sandford played a crucial role in the start of the American Civil War four years later.
kOKwg TIL of an undercover operation in 2020 where a group of white hat hackers discovered a security vulnerability and preemptively stole $10mil USD worth of the cryptocurrency Ethereum before anyone else could, stored the funds somewhere else, and then returned all of the funds to their original owners.
JyZV TIL in 19th Century France the skeleton of a 3.5M (11'6") tall neolithic human was discovered and scientifically examined