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TIL: You can tell how hot a jalapeno is by looking for stretch marks.

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BrYox TIL in Europe between 1550 and 1700 over 80,000 people were tried for witchcraft and half were executed - often burned alive. Data shows it was most intense where Catholic-Protestant rivalry was strongest and the phenomenon reached its zenith when there was “peak competition for Christian consumers"
J1NPB TIL about Pschitt!, a French soft drink created by Perrier in 1954. The name originates in the transcription in French of the noise made by a Perrier bottle when it is opened.
Oo4V7 TIL the pages of Finland's passport make a flipbook of a moose walking
GY6W1 TIL they originally conceived Beavis and Butt-head Do America as a live action movie, with David Spade and Adam Sandler in mind to play the title characters.
aVe0 TIL: The Christian Children’s Fund once turned down a $17,398 donation because it was associated with Dungeons and Dragons.