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TIL Switzerland has no official capital city

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woYWP 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.
W7Jd4 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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