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TIL Nashville Hot Chicken was invented when a scorned lover, usually referred today as just "Girlfriend X" wanted to teach her cheating boyfriend, Thornton Prince, a lesson, so she put a punch of hot peppers in his batch of wings, but he ended up loving it and worked to perfect the recipe.

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WOpB TIL that Martin Luther King Jr’s assassin, James Earl Ray was once erroneously honoured during a parade which intended to praise the actor James Earl Jones. Lauderdale, Florida accidentally created a plaque in January 2002 which read ‘Thanks James Earl Ray for keeping the dream alive’.
nY9d TIL that ibuprofen can neutralize a cannabis high and potentially eliminate short term memory loss associated with cannabis use
xlJw TIL Clay pipe fragments excavated from Shakespeare’s Stratford-upon-Avon home contained small amounts of cocaine, cannabis and myristic acid
LWKv TIL a mysterious lady dressed with a headscarf like a Russian grandma, the Babushka Lady, was seen at the JFK assassination taking pictures of the event, and the FBI publicly asked for her to step forward with any pictures she took but she never came forward
Axxo TIL in 2012 a man intentionally jumped off of the monorail at the Bronx Zoo into the tiger exhibit, to be ‘one with the tiger’. He survived, and when the police asked him why he did it he replied “everyone in life makes choices”.