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TIL Pace picante uses 25 million pounds of jalapeños each year

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JYBQk TIL one of the Soviet space dogs' puppy, Pushinka, was given by Khrushchev to Kennedy as a gift. One of Kennedy's dog, Charlie, took a liking to Pushinka, resulting in the birth of four pups referred jokingly by Kennedy as "pupniks".
5Y9PD TIL that Cambridge University Library's 17-storey tower holds one million banished books that were considered 'not academic enough' and is now a literary time capsule and treasure trove for researchers.
Zp8lQ TIL: US torpedoes at the beginning of WW2 had an extremely high dud rate that took awhile to be acknowledged because the US Navy refused to allow live testing of ordinance as a cost saving measure.
7Var TIL There is an operating system that fits on a floppy disk, and is still being developed for fun
neG8W TIL rapper Ice Cube converted to Islam in the mid-1990s. This is why, in his song "It Was A Good Day", his momma cooked the breakfast with no hog - because Muslims don't eat pork.