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TIL that there was a hot sauce with 16 million Scoville Units, created from crystals of pure Caspacin

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P18XE TIL that during the Battle of Stamford Bridge, a Viking axeman captured a bridge by himself and cut down 40 of the enemy, until one of them floated in a barrel underneath and killed the Viking with a spear.
XErwQ TIL of submarine Commander Eugene Fluckey, credited with the most tonnage sunk in WWII, incl. a Carrier and leading men on land to blow up a train. He got 4 Navy Crosses, the Medal of Honor, his boat got several Presidential Unit citations and not one of his men got a Purple Heart.
p8rG4 TIL in 2015 a Chinese woman was stopped at an airport in Beijing for having a bottle of Cognac in her carry-on. Instead of handing it over to airport security, she chugged the entire bottle on the spot before taking her plane.
BrkPb TIL the word "gorilla" comes from the Greek word meaning, "savage hairy women."
o7EE TIL that a kiss from your dog might mean that they want you to regurgitate a snack for them…