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TIL Victoria is the Capital of Seychelles!
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TIL: The Byzantines themselves never stopped calling themselves Romans till the very fall of the empire. After the crowning of Charlemagne as emperor in 800, they were keen on viewing Byzantium as a Greek empire. But they s felt rather angry when they were called Greeks and not Roman.
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TIL comedian Katt Williams was sued in 2012 by fans for "non-performance." He performed a long-winded rant for roughly ten minutes, challenged an audience member to a fight, and angered fans paying upwards of $94.
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TIL: Jay Weinburg, drummer for the band Slipknot, is the son of Max Weinburg, drummer for Bruce Springsteen and leader of The Max Weinburg 7 (band on Late Night with Conan O'brien)
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TIL that some Native Americans tribes were major slave holders.
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TIL that Teddy Roosevelt suffered a detached retina in 1908 after becoming blind in one eye due to a boxing injury in the White House. He later switched to jiu-jitsu and became a black belt.