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TIL Switzerland has no official capital city

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a8pMy TIL Philippines President Ferdinand E. Marcos, who was considered a dictator during the 70's and 80's, used the following campaign slogan: "This nation can be great again"
YprRA TIL the most expensive first class tickets on the Titanic were $4350 (or £870) in 1912 money. That's over $100,000 today.
pQa8 TIL in Japan there is a family that has run the same hotel for nearly 1,300 years … or 46 generations
0wBKy TIL when Saint Philip Neri's body was examined after he died, two of his ribs were found broken; this was attributed at the time to a miraculous expansion of his heart while praying. However, Pope Benedict XIV later stated that Philip's enlarged heart was actually caused by an aneurism.
woOyJ TIL: Scientists discovered that the venom of the Latrodectus mactans variety of black widow spiders killed children and the elderly, but among young men it caused prolonged erections and involuntary ejaculations. Researchers have been studying the venom for use in male virility pills.