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TIL a koi fish named Hanako lived for 225 years

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OoQr7 TIL for the catching-a-fly-with-chopsticks scene in the "Karate Kid", they first tired regular flies but that didn't work. Then they tried refrigerated flies (they fly slower) but that didn't work. Finally they took a piece of sweater fuzz and just hung it on a string and that finally worked.
oBgjE TIL The World’s southernmost national capital is Wellington, New Zealand. Canberra, Montevideo, Buenos Aires, Cape Town and Santiago are next.
0A4N TIL that steel from the sunk Imperial German Navy is used extensively in space ship equipment, as steel produced after 1945 is contaminated by nuclear pollution.
YRYv TIL that when Pope John Paul II visited Chile, he asked a crowd of tens of thousands to refuse greed and consumerism –to which they replied «yes», to reject the idol of power, «yes», but when he asked them to reject the idol of «sex and pleasure», the whole stadium replied an outright «NO!»
vP5JR TIL: Nigeria’s federal medical authority mantains a public list of registered quacks.