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TIL that west Berlin was NOT the capital of western germany.

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x451 TIL that in 1985 the French President authorised a state-sponsored terror attack on New Zealand soil, killing a Dutch citizen.
L4V9 TIL Soviet composer Dmitri Shostakovich was so obsessive that he regularly sent cards to himself to test how well the postal service was working.
jBpa TIL ‘Public School’ has the Opposite Meaning in the U.K. compared to the U.S.
v1oeD TIL about Sir Upendranath Brahmachari, who saved millions of lives by developing a cure for Kala-Azar in 1920's. He was nominated multiple times for the Nobel Prize in medicine but is not recognized by the government and the people
BdJL TIL that there is a pistol called the Armatix Smart System iP1. the Pistol won’t fire unless a radio-signal watch is located within 40 cm of the pistol, and the watch won’t activate unless a finger print and a PIN code are entered into it.