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TIL Dentist and explorer Weston Price went on an expedition looking for tribes with a vegan diet, he only found cannibals.

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wLBRo TIL that Santa Fe, New Mexico is the oldest capital city in North America, founded (1607) over a decade before the Mayflower landed at Plymouth Rock (1620).
rNrm1 TIL about Stargazers, a family of fish that eyes on the top of their heads. They usually catch food by hiding in the sand and leaping upwards when the prey passes overhead.
BrobD TIL The last month of the year used to be February
pYnk8 TIL the Democratic Republic of the Congo built its new National Museum in 2019 with the funding of South Korea. Congolese experts working there are now trained in South Korea instead of by Belgian scientists from the Africa Museum in Brussels
rRJro TIL the first state-issued license plate in the USA, a Massachusetts plate from 1903, is still being used by a relative of the original licensee.