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TIL according to Chili Appreciation Society International, cooks are forbidden from putting beans in chili.

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6wrJ TIL: In 2006, someone tried to sell New Zealand on eBay. The price had risen to $3,000 before eBay closed the auction.
8a0Yb TIL after WW2, the Japanese researchers who experimented on humans to develop bio- and chemical weapons were given immunity by the US in exchange for their data. Victim accounts were then dismissed as communist propaganda. But, Americans found the data "amateurish" and subsequently returned it.
07Oy TIL British empire, “the empire on which the sun never sets”, was the largest empire in history. By 1922 it held sway over about 458 million people, one-fifth of the world’s population at the time. The empire covered more than 13,012,000 sq mi, almost a quarter of the Earth’s total land area.
lo5aB TIL that eminem’s high score in donkey kong put him in the top 30 of all time in 2010.
5V8rk TIL Hulk Hogan claimed in his autobiography that he once wrestled 400 days in a year because of his frequent trips back and forth from the USA and Japan