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TIL Switzerland has no official capital city
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TIL about Bountygate - a scandal in the NFL during the 2011 season which involved New Orleans Saints players gambling over the severity of injuries they could cause the opposing teams players. The result was the head coach being suspended for a season as he was found to have condoned the behaviour.
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TIl TIL that after the US landed the first people on the moon the Soviet Union framed Apollo 11 as “the fanatical squandering of wealth looted from the oppressed peoples of the developing world.”
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TIL The Speed Of Light Filmed At 10 Trillion Frames Per Second Can Be Measured In Picoseconds In Order To See Light Moving. 1 Picosecond To A Second Is The Same As 1 Second To 31,689 Years.
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TIL After purchasing McDonald's, Ray Kroc had strict policies for all of his franchises, including only establishing new locations in suburban areas and never in downtowns, since poor people might eat in them after the main business hours were over.
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TIL the word dude originally referred to an 1880s hipster.