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TIL In 2023, Guinness World Records recognized Pepper X as the world's hottest chili pepper

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9wNoB TIL that in 1951, Clint Eastwood survived an ocean plane crash off point Reyes. Surviving the initial impact, Eastwood miraculously swam back to shore after being thrown off his life raft, in rough shark infested water. He was 21 years old.
BrrKy TIL the unit used to measure shoes/feet in Britain is called a Barleycorn (1/3rd of an inch)
PYL9n TIL rapper Bizzy Bone, who was abducted by his step-father as a child, was reunited with his mother after a neighbor recognized a photo of him shown at the end of the 1983 broadcast of the TV movie ‘Adam’ which was based on the abduction and murder of America’s Most Wanted host John Walsh’s son.
MeY6b TIL there's a city in Texas called Cut and Shoot, supposedly named after a boy shouted "I'm going to cut around the corner and shoot through the bushes in a minute!" during an altercation.
0wMdN TIL that when they started Apple, the amount of memory to hold a song cost about a million dollars.