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TIL there is actually a pepper hotter than the Ghost Chili. The new record holder is called the Carolina Reaper, and rates an average of 1,569,300 Scoville units.

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AMNB TIL that in 1954 the economist Armen Alchian was able to figure out what the secret fuel was for the newly developed hydrogen bomb just by looking at the share prices of chemical suppliers on the stock market
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