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TIL Victoria is the Capital of Seychelles!

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1609d TIL That the iconic red stapler in Office Space was simple spray painted, it wasn't till three years after the film release when Swingline started actually selling red staplers
1601r TIL UK's highest-paid entertainer in WW2, George Formby, went to Normandy after the landings, & gave 9 shows to frontline troops who’d held out for 56 days without relief, his audience in foxholes. He also crawled through trenches to tell jokes when the enemy was too close for a show.
GYQ8G TIL Basic human emotions such as happiness, sadness, Anger, fear and surprise are embedded in our instinct (as default settings) BUT the only emotion that we acquire by learning is Disgust. That is why some foods seem normal in some cultures but considered disgusting in others.
d8JBK TIL while in heat a lioness can mate for three days straight, sometimes with multiple males, about once every 20-30 minutes (a rough estimate of 50+ times a day).
MeED8 TIL that a research team figured out how to produce a fossil in as little as five days