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

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ogMo TIL of “The Widower”, a dish from Grantham made with 20 infinity chilies and claimed to be the worlds hottest curry. Only one person has ever finished it; he took an hour to finish it and spent 10 minutes of that time hallucinating due to the endorphin rush.
EgxMX TIL that scientists managed to virtually reconstruct the destroyed planetary system of the star WD 1145+017 by analysing the debris field around the star. Giving birth to the field of astronomy dedicated to studying destroyed planets known as Necroplanetology.
0dkBp TIL The idea of the four humours also applied to emotions in the form of the four temperaments. One's temperament was based on the physical amounts of humours with the excesses causing one to be sanguine, choleric, melancholic, or phlegmatic. A healthy mind came from balanced humours.
wg68 TIL that the idea of witches riding broomsticks originates in the Middle Age practice of women using broomsticks to apply psychedelic ointments to their vaginas
KORDB TIL the lifespan of the Hindu deity Brahma is believed to last 311.04 trillion years