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TIL Switzerland has no official capital city

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VBZBQ TIL that a pharmacist diluted "whatever I could dilute" including chemo drugs... killing maybe 4000 people. He was released last year.
690g7 TIL that in the 18th century English sailors aboard the HMS Dolphin stopped in Tahiti and discovered the women there would take iron in exchange for sex, resulting in the sailors removing nails from the ship and trading them in for their personal gratification.
nbGP Today I learned that the spikes at the end of Stegosaurus’s tail are called “thagomizers” because of a Far Side comic, published in 1982, that featured a cave man pointing to a diagram of a Stegosaurus tail with the caption “Now this end is called the Thagomizer–after the late Thag Simmons.”
QJX96 TIL of the Raines Sandwich. In 1896, New York passed the Raines law to reduce Sunday drinking. The law had a loophole allowing bars to serve alcohol only with a meal. Staff added a sandwich to every drink order, then took it away, serving it to the next customer - the sandwich often lasted all day.
E1WQV TIL about "glacier mice": fuzzy green balls of moss that form on top of glaciers and move like a herd of rodents