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TIL that Monrovia, the capital of Liberia in West Africa, is the second national capital to be named after a US president (James Monroe), apart from Washington DC. It also is the only national capital named after a leader of a different country.

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9nYM TIL Scientists from South Africa discovered a formula that calculates how likely a frog is to eat another frog. “For every one millimeter increase in body size, a frog is 2.8 percent more likely to eat other frogs.”
R7XDQ TIL gin and tonic was invented to make antimalarials more palatable
0n9R TIL of the condition called “Jogger’s Nipple” where your nipples can bleed during a prolonged period of exercise
akV9 TIL America has spent $4 Trillion on the Iraq War
eVpE TIL a spoonful of matter taken from a neutron star would weigh more that Mt. Everest, or 900 pyramids of Giza. (5,500,000,000 tons)