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TIL that cayenne pepper can stop bleeding by applying directly to wounds

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Mmpb TIL that one liter of gasoline can deliver 35 megajoule of energy. This is the amount of energy one square meter of land receives from the sun, in the best conditions, in approximately ten hours.
gdyy TIL female kangaroos conceive again a few days after giving birth but the new embryo enters a dormant state that lasts until the previous young leaves the pouch
1DYW TIL pirates rarely plundered gold, silver, and jewels. Their most common plunder was trade goods such as bolts of cloth, tanned animal skins, spices, sugar, dyes, cocoa, tobacco, cotton, and wood.
v1OB7 TIL in 1961 Bill Mitchell of GM ordered his team to paint a concept car to match the colors of a dead shark mounted in his office. Many attempts failed, so one night the team kidnapped the fish and painted it instead. Mitchell never found out and was happy with the team's duplication of nature.
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