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TIL that chipotle peppers are just smoke-dried jalapeños.

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pY70N TIL about The Guatemalan Syphilis Experiment was a medical experiment conducted by the United States government from 1946 to 1948, which involved intentionally infecting Guatemalan prisoners, soldiers, and mental health patients with syphilis and other sexually transmitted diseases without their con
x67dk Til about the 1979 Nice Airport (France) landslide and tsunami that combined resulted in at least 15 deaths
aWP9 TIL that the cast and crew of Borat nearly started a riot during the filming of the rodeo scene where Borat sings the (made up) Kazakhstan national Anthem to the tune of the American national anthem.
0dyw1 TIL Roman specialized slaves, known as alipilarii, were tasked with plucking the hair from armpits and other parts of the body.
Na78 Til in 1999, the TV, lighting & sound cables for Greenwich Park’s ‘Millennium Pop Concert’ were laid by trained ferrets because it was impossible to use rods to push the cables through the tiny underground tunnels.