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TIL in the African country of Equatorial Guinea, they are building a new city called Ciudad de la Paz to replace the current capital, Malabo, because the new capital is on the mainland of the country making access to the capital easier since the current capital is on an island far from the mainland.

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9YpVQ TIL that Mola Mola (Ocean Sunfish) have the potential to grow more than 60 million times their birth size, arguably the most extreme size growth of any vertebrate animal.
16rA4 TIL of Thomas Fuller, an enslaved African and mental calculator. When asked how many seconds a man has lived in 70 years 17 days & 12 hours, he replied 2,210,500,800. When told he was wrong, Fuller said "massa, you forget de leap year", which was correct once the seconds of the leap years were added
awx7A TIL That the creator of Madame Tussauds, Marie Tussaud, was in jail during the French Revolution, awaiting execution by guillotine. She got out under 1 condition: She had to create wax sculptures of the recently guillotined heads of her former employers at Versailles, where she was an art teacher.
R7D06 TIL: To combat the theft of trees around Christmas time, University of Nebraska-Lincoln used to spray their trees with fox urine. It freezes and has no odor outside, but thaws if taken indoors. The resultant smell is so rancid it is “eye-watering”.
nWKP9 TIL - Blind people who regain sight after years struggle to recognize objects because vision is learned, not automatic. They need to train their brain to actually see.