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TIL that ghost peppers are used in India as a repellant to ward off elephants, preventing them from eating and destroying crops

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VMVkk TIL of Charles "Charlie" Brown, a B-17F (Ye Olde Pub) pilot in WWII, and Franz Stigler, a BF 109 Messerschmitt pilot, who had escorted Ye Olde Pub out of German airspace.
LkVNm TIL everyone with blue eyes is descended from a single ancestor.
5eAk TIL Left-handed people are often excluded from studies of how the brain works. This means that the results of those studies may not apply to ~10% of the population.
MejG8 TIL that the only thing you can prove mathematically is that you can't prove anything at all, due to the axiomatic foundations of proof theory - as pointed out by Kurt Gödel's incompleteness theorems.
X0GY8 TIL About 130 million adults in the U.S. — half of Americans between the ages of 16 and 74 — have low literacy skills