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TIL that the Northern treeshrew is the only mammal known to willingly consume spicy foods other than humans. This is due to a natural resistance to capsaicin.

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QJrNp TIL of the "Pioneering Spirit", the world's largest ship (by gross tonnage)
epPy4 TIL that "heroin" was a brand name owned by Bayer until the Treaty of Versailles after WWI, when the German pharmaceutical company had to give up its trademarks for reparations.
X0KbP TIL the Dodgers and Giants baseball teams originally started in New York. When they relocated to California, leaving NYC without a National League franchise, a new team was started, the Mets. The Mets then adopted the blue of the Dodgers and the orange of the Giants
LkrQ TIL that speakers of the tonal language Mandarin are 10x more likely to develop perfect pitch than native English speakers (bottom graph page 5).
Rkj6 TIL: You would need to smoke approximately 15,000 joints in 20 minutes to die from cannabis poisoning.