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TIL that Kyoto, the former capital of Japan, just means “capital city” and Tokyo means “eastern capital”

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WBpA TIL that elephants are the only other mammal that have a chin.
OGY5L TIL that it is tradition for the newly-elected Speaker of the House of Commons to be ceremoniously "dragged" to his seat by other Members of Parliament.
rRV8x TIL The best pictures we have of the Mt. St. Helens eruption came from a photographer that was close to the eruption. He realized there was nothing he could do, so he took as many pictures as he could, put his camera back in the bag, and used his body to protect it from the ash.
LkgV0 TIL that the Russian space agency decided to turn an old space suit into a satellite. The result looked like an astronaut stranded in outer space.
pQJG TIL that after Union cemeteries were filled, general Robert E. Lee’s own former property in Virginia was chosen to bury Civil War casualties, a partly vindictive move ensuring that no one could ever live there again. The property eventually became Arlington National Cemetery.