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TIL Jalapeño peppers are generally less spicy today than they were 20 years ago due to crossbreeding with a specific breed of Jalapeño that Texas A&M scientists created which has a consistently lower spice while also being hardier and quicker to grow.

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5YmEB TIL that if you add 250ml of water to 250ml of alcohol, you get less than 500ml of liquid. This is due to strong hydrogen bonding between the different molecules drawing them close together, and that ethanol molecules are smaller than water molecules, so they fill in the spaces between the water.
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