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TIL the North Pole has no time zone assigned to it so any time can be used as the local time

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NXxQJ TIL Plants receive more energy on a cloudy day in the summer than on a sunny day in the winter.
b6WBZ TIL Ceaser salad was named after Ceaser Cardini and not Julius Ceaser…
5VWn TIL one of the earliest pioneers in parachuting was a woman named Jeanne Geneviève Labrosse, who jumped out of a perfectly good hydrogen balloon in 1799 and descended to safety 900 meters below.
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0VeN TIL that Quakers call the months of the year and days of the week by number only, in order to avoid using names of pagan deities.