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TIL that Plymouth, Montserrat is the only De Jure capital city with a population of 0

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yQ4Mw TIL African gray parrots will help other members of their species in need, the first time such charitable behavior has been documented among birds.
MW4V TIL Princess Diana stated her bulimia started “the week after we got engaged.” “My husband put his hand on my waistline and said: ‘Oh, a bit chubby here, aren’t we?’ and that triggered off something in me.“
Bg4dr TIL that ants take rest for around 8 Minutes in 12-hour period. In a 24-hour period, two such rest periods occur, however, only one of them bears any resemblance to what we would call sleep.
OM9X TIL that Penn Jillette of Penn & Teller did a “penny behind the ear trick” for television while having brain surgery. Teller had him remain conscious so that he could see the penny after Teller produced it and say it was the one he marked. The resulting footage was too disturbing to be aired.
XVl6 TIL there is a Jules Verne novel called “Paris in the Twentieth Century”, which was written in 1863, set in 1960 and first published in 1994.