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TIL Canberra, Australia's capital city, had a variety of suggested names including Kangaremu

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14PO TIL the blanket octopus is known to rip off the venomous tentacles of the Portuguese man o’ war to use them as weapons
9YyOB TIL that in 1995 NASA updated an original study by Peter N Witt on the effects of various drugs on spiders and found similar results.
P1aZe TIL about “Umuganda,” a national holiday in Rwanda taking place on the last Saturday of every month for mandatory nationwide community work.
6n5J TIL that college textbook publishers began adding more colorful visuals to books in part to justify the enormous increase in costs, more than 1000% since the late 1970s.
16A6d TIL that the largest known prime number discovered as of June 2023 is 282,589,933 − 1, a number which contains 24,862,048 digits.