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TIL Stephen King, one of the greatest horror novelists of all time, has to sleep with the lights on.

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DQnkg Today I Learned that even though chilies and peppers aren't related, chilies are often called "chili peppers" because of an historical error caused by Christopher Columbus mistakenly linking the "spiciness" and "heat" of native Latin American chilies to Indian pepper.
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