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TIL Victoria is the Capital of Seychelles!

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1a45X TIL when Spanish Prime Minister Luis Carrero Blanco was assasinated in 1973, the bomb was so powerful that it sent his car flying over the roof of a building and into the courtyard.
WkkxX TIL That function of the stripes of the zebra is to give it a form of security through obscurity by camouflaging it against the other zebras not against the grass.
mOwv TIL If you die in Amsterdam with no next of kin and no-one to attend your funeral, a poet will write a poem for you and recite it at your funeral.
jWDX TIL that in 1884, halfway through the 10 year plan to produce an up to date English dictionary, the team had only reached the word ‘Ant’ The final volume was published 49 years after they started.
X00EX TIL Roger Bacon who lived from around 1214 to 1292. In his Epistola de Secretis Operibus, he wrote: “Cars can be made so that without animals they will move with unbelievable rapidity,” and “flying machines can be constructed by which artificial wings are made to beat the air like a flying bird.”