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TIL The World’s southernmost national capital is Wellington, New Zealand. Canberra, Montevideo, Buenos Aires, Cape Town and Santiago are next.

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XERmQ TIL Elvis had to be rescued from a bowl of chicken soup that he began to drown in.
v1b77 TIL goats are permanently in toad sage mode. Goats have horizontal pupils because that way in case predators (or something dangerous) come from their periphiral vision they can see it clearly.
p8ZDe TIL HIV is reported cured in two patients both of whom benefited from bone marrow transplant procedures that were actually intended for treating cancer, not HIV
v1jbL TIL that a man --Dharampal Singh, was stoned to death by monkeys in India. The animals had collected bricks from a dilapidated building nearby and reportedly pelted him with the bricks from a tree. His family lodged a formal complaint about the incident at Doghat police station in Uttar Pradesh.
gjlW TIL of the “Method of Loci”, a memory technique where a person creates an imaginary structure or town within their head, and uses objects within the buildings as representations of real life items and ideas.