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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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d8y59 TIL, in music, a drone is a harmonic or monophonic effect or accompaniment where a note or chord is continuously sounded throughout most or all of a piece. (46 & 2 is an example of this)
KrG9 TIL Nickelodeon was the name given to early movie theaters where admission cost a nickel
VBKGp TIL: the whale shark—Rhincodon typus—is the largest fish in the world (one of the biggest whale sharks ever reported was nearly 19 meters long)
BreBK Today I learned all Navel Oranges are genetically identical, the trees originally grafted in the 1800's from one mutant branch on a tree in a monastery in Brazil. The mutation that made it seedless just happened to cause a smaller conjoined twin to grow on one end, the "navel".
jdGX TIL that in 1586 a pregnant widow wrote a letter to her partner, who had died at the age of 30. This was found by archaeologists in South Korea in 1998, intact with the man’s mummified body and a pair of sandals woven from hemp and the woman’s hair.