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TIL that a chipotle pepper is a jalapeño that has been dried and smoked.

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W7pOX TIL the annular solar eclipse means "ring" solar eclipse, and is not the same as total solar eclipse when you experience it
VDbB TIL prescriptivism, which prescribes rigid grammatical rules to written English, only came into favour in the late 1800s. Prior to this most writers were comfortable using multiple spellings and grammatical conventions within a single text.
aweQN TIL, Before Apple bought Siri, it was originally going to be released as an app for Android & Blackberry.
D1WWV TIL: All of the world's four deepest caves are in located in Abkhazia. The record-holder is Veryovkina Cave, which goes down at least 1.3 miles. Due to the hazards and need for specialized rope techniques, "the round trip —top to bottom and back— takes professional speleologists about a week."
lJo5 TIL Legendary daredevil Evel Knievel got his stagename from a prison guard. The man in the next cell was named “Knofel” and the guard started calling them “Awful Knofel” and “Evil Knievel”.