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TIL South Africa has 3 capital, the reason is that there is one for each branch of the government in the country and the government is divided into three different branches

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mxgWR TIL Steve Carell got "The Office" role of Michael Scott after both Philip Seymour Hoffman and Paul Giamatti turned it down
4XwZJ TIL the actor playing Hedorah the Smog Monster in a 1971 Godzilla film came down with appendicitis. Doctors were forced to perform surgery while he was still wearing the monster suit due to the length of time it took to take off. During the operation he learned that painkillers had no effect on him.
OGOLg TIL the most famous video of the Apollo 11 moon landing is not the original footage, but a lower-quality recording of a monitor in Australia. NASA accidentally erased the original tapes.
648W TIL Rose Leslie (Ygritte in Game of Thrones) grew up in Lickleyhead Castle, her family’s 15th century ancestral seat in Aberdeen Scotland. She is a descendant of Charles II.
Qr79 TIL that a blue moon means the second full moon in a month and the first one in over two years is happening next Friday.