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TIL that the difference in color of green/yellow/red bell peppers is their stage in the ripening process, not that they are different varieties.

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XEJLR TIL of twenty-seven year old Navy Veteran Telemachus Orfanos, a survivor of the 2017 Las Vegas shooting that was killed a year later at the 2018 Thousand Oakes shooting in California.
M7Ylm TIL that Genghis Khan strategically married his daughters to allied kings, sending the sons-in-law to fight in Mongol campaigns. As many of them died in battle, his daughters took control, effectively ruling those nations.
lo1rA TIL that the Vatican forbade copies of Gregorio Allegri's Miserere mei, Deus, threatening any publication with excommunication. That was until 1770 when a 14-year-old named Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, who, on a trip to Rome with his father, heard it but twice and transcribed it faithfully from memory.
P1KRE TIL that BACA, is a biker gang that defends kids who have been abused or bullied. They provide the kids with their own vests, take them to school, and even guard their homes 24/7 to ensure they can sleep safely. BACA's mission is to empower children and help them feel safe and protected.
dJZ9 TIL after escaping from slavery, an illiterate Harriet Tubman was spotted by a former master on a train. She decided to pick up a nearby newspaper and pretended to read it. The master ignored the black woman reading because he knew Tubman couldn’t read.