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TIL That when the University of Oregon Ducks play the Oregon State Beavers, they play for “The Platypus Trophy”

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wnkE TIL Singapore is the only country in the history of the modern world to gain independence against its own will.
Melm8 TIL that all chili peppers came from around central America. Chili peppers are one of the New World Foods.
xVV71 TIL both the first and last rulers of Rome were named Romulus
5ZJr TIL of the Scoville scale for measuring the heat of peppers. The capsaicinoids are extracted and diluted until 3/5ths of expert tasters cannot taste the heat. The units refer to the number of drops of water used for dilution: 1 million means 1 drop of extract requires 1 million drops of water.
m1lbp TIL in 1988 a tradie named Gordon O'Connor alongside his camel, Carla, defeated dysentery, kidney failure, the Australian outback and the SAS to win the world's longest animal endurance race