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TIL Nigerian startups and digital entrepreneurs often hide or change their IP addresses so prospective foreign clients and funders can’t immediately identify that they’re working from Nigeria due to its negative scam reputation

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WmwB TIL of Unit 731, a covert biological warfare research and development unit of the Japanese Army that undertook lethal human experimentation. A few of the experiments included vivisection without anesthesia and pressure chambers to see how much a human could take before his eyes popped out.
e6wL TIL The most expensive movie stunt ever was in the movie cliffhanger. The stuntman was paid 1 million dollars to transfer between two jets at 15,000 feet.
oxAR TIL that red bell peppers are simply fully ripened green bell peppers. Yellow bell peppers, however, are different cultivars.
x6apB TIL Sir Peter Jackson owns a version of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang used in the film and the car is fully driveable.
KYL66 TIL that, while not very common, German-speaking countries have vomit sinks in a very, very few amount of clubs, bars, frat houses and supervised injection sites for drug users called a few different names such as Speibecken or Kotzbecken