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TIL : Jalapeños were First Peppers in Space

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JYE9V TiL Any polar bear found in Iceland is to be killed on site
LK1v TIL that an Artificial Intelligence turned $20 into $11,000 by gambling
J1BGQ TIL in 2010, following slumped sales after the Financial Crisis of 2008, Gap decided to redesign their 20-year longstanding logo, costing an estimated $100M. The amount of public backlash was so great, that Gap took the decision to revert back to their old 1990 logo after less than one week.
e0GNg TIL The Sharps Rifle was nicknamed "Beecher's Bible" after abolitionist preacher Henry Ward Beecher: "You might just as well...read the Bible to Buffaloes as to those fellows who follow Atchison and Stringfellow; but they have a supreme respect for the logic that is embodied in Sharp's rifle."
j0yR TIL The Count of Monte Cristo has never been out of print in most modern languages