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TIL green bell peppers were just red/yellow/orange peppers but in their unripe form

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oBXZW TIL that Swiss cheese forgery is a real problem and to combat it, there's a freezer in Bern, Switzerland where government scientists keep 10,000 strains of milk bacteria that can be used to identify counterfeit cheese
LMJQ TIL a former bonded child labourer from Pakistan escaped the carpet factory at the age of 10, helped free over 3000 kids from slavery, helped bring down Pakistani carpet exports by $34 million, before being murdered at the age of 13.
BrRWr TIL timeless physics is the controversial view that time, as we perceive it, does not exist as anything other than an illusion. Arguably we have no evidence of the past other than our memory of it, and no evidence of the future other than our belief in it.
KYOW6 TIL Led Zeppelin were considered one of the most dangerous bands to interview, and journalists were given rules to ensure all out brawls wouldn’t break out. Among those the most famous was to “never make eye contact with John Bonham. ”
1a4wD TIL - Pain is the most common reason people go to the ER.