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TIL Africa has two capitals that mean the same thing in different languages: Libreville (Gabon) and Freetown (Sierra Leone)

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gMv7A TIL that the Japanese used houseflies coated in a bacterial slurry to spread cholera in China and kill an estimated 410,000 people during WWII.
78a0P TIL that a man accidentally got shot in the head by a particle accelerator back in 1978 and is still alive
jNyKX TIL about the power of placebo. In a 2002 study spanning two years, people with osteoarthritis improved equally whether they were given knee surgery or tricked into thinking they received it.
DQmdg TIL about Sacheen Littlefeather: An American woman with Mexican ancestry, whose lies about being Native American were discovered after her death at 75.
4XGmJ TIL that Canada doesn't have an official name, like the ''Republic of...'' or the ''Commonwealth of...'', it's just Canada