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TIL spicy foods have a number of positive health outcomes when eaten regularly, including lengthening life expectancy, boosting metabolism, and even fighting off and destroying cancer cells, among other benefits

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R7p88 TIL Black Bears are killed for their skins to make Marge Simpson type hats for the Queen's Guards. In 2015, they purchased 122 hats for £1,224 each. There have been calls by animal rights groups to phase out this practice.
xLZB TIL “&” used to be the 27th letter of the alphabet. The name ampersand comes from the fact that early 1800s school children reciting their ABCs concluded with “&” by saying “X, Y, Z, and per se and” (“per se” means “by itself”)
16xg7 TIL Stephen Hawking's famous wheelchair was sold at auction for almost 300,000 pounds. Hawking used this wheelchair from the end of the 1980s until the early years of the 1990s, before he became unable to use his hands to drive a wheelchair
0wpeL TIL in the 1970s when John Williams first demonstrated the two-note "Jaws" danger theme to director Steven Spielberg, he laughed, thinking it was a joke. Spielberg later said the movie would have been only half as successful without Williams.
0dG1A TIL the money cost to governments involved in WW2 has been estimated at more than $1,000,000,000,000