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TIL Peri Peri originated from Africa and it was initially called Pilipili meaning "pepper" in Swahili

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rNKjx TIL Moses Fleetwood walker is historically credited with being the first Black man to play in major league baseball in the 1884 season.
8aBAZ TIL that when NASA's New Horizons spacecraft passed by Pluto, the trip took about 1 minute less than predicted or in a decade-long journey, NASA's forecast was 99.99998% accurate or the equivalent of forecasting a trip from New York to Boston & being accurate to within four-millionths of a second.
gM1NX TIL there is a German man who was born in 1905 (when Germany was still ruled by Emperors), was 12 at the end of WWI, 40 at the end of WWII, 84 at the fall of the Berlin Wall, and is still alive at 113 years old.
Lk8BZ TIL The United States Supreme Court has declared tomatoes are legally vegetables, not fruit. (Nix v. Hedden, 1893)
165BO TIL about kugelblitz, a way to create a black hole with lasers.