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TIL that the very popular Chipotle Pepper is nothing more than a smoke dried Jalapeño...

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E1Edo TIL that author, Barbara Follet, who published her first book at 12, vanished under strange circumstances. Her disappearance eerily resembles the last paragraph in her final book.
5YNwn TIL during WW2 after the Nazis had taken over France, Churchill made the decision to attack the French naval fleet rather than let it fall into enemy hands. The bombardment killed nearly 2,000 men. France then severed all diplomatic relations with the UK and even mounted several retaliation attacks.
e0V6J TIL The entire city of Liverpool, UK has boycotted the tabloid newspaper 'The Sun'
VQbm TIL that about 90% of the world’s LSD supply vanished overnight when the chemist who was making virtually all of the world’s LSD, got caught. he was making it In a nuclear missile silo.
nWBjB TIL that the idea that people harvest Adrenochrome from humans, subject of a wide-spread conspiracy theory, originated in Hunter S. Thompson's novel "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas"