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TIL Victoria is the Capital of Seychelles!

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JeZ4 TIL there is a tree in Germany that has its own post code and is used as a public letter box for people seeking love partners
nep1P TIL that the term "teetotaler" came from the abbreviation "T.A.", for Total Abstinence. This was written on pledge cards in temperance societies, proclaiming that you were abstaining from alcohol rather than just drinking in moderation.
VME08 TIL George Reeves, the Superman of the 50s, insisted Phyllis Coates (Lois Lane) be given equal billing.
16QN4 TIL during a 2016 expedition to find the Loch Ness Monster, a 30-ft model of the Monster was discovered at the bottom of Loch Ness - a lost prop from the 1970 film 'The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes'.
ADRKB TIL The First Scientists to examine a preserved Platypus body (1799) determined it was fake and made of several animals sewn together.