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TIL that Teflon is the the only known material to which geckos cannot stick on

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VB5eQ TIL Hitler greatly admired the US ideology for territorial expansion (Manifest Destiny), and saw its destruction of Native American people and cultures as a template for German expansion (Lebensraum)
7rEkX TIL that Rome was not the capital of the Western Roman Empire until its fall. The capital was moved to Mediolanum and Ravenna in the last centuries.
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