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TIL although the “ghost pepper,” rated at 1million Scoville heat units (SHUs) was the hottest pepper known to man, it was dethroned by the “Carolina Reaper,” rated up to 2.2million SHUs, in 2012.

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E1Lx7 TIL in 1971, the first person to successfully escape America’s first “SUPERMAX” prison said he did it to bring attention to his water desalination research
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M7BXV TIL that Queen Victoria was the shortest of all British monarchs with height of only 1.52 m