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TIL that its actually 3 hours earlier in west usa then in east usa so when its 12pm in new york city its 9am in las angelas

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X0oWD TIL that Matsuo Basho, considered the greatest haiku poet in history, visited the city of Matsushima and wrote the following haiku: "Matsushima ah! Ah-ah, Matsushima ah! Matsushima ah!"
xVbp0 TIL the Ozone layer is healing and is expected to do a full recovery by 2060.
baQZ TIL that the Letters of last resort are written by the UK PM and tell what to do in the event of a nuclear strike. The letters are sent to four submarines that will open the letters if they don’t receive a UK naval broadcast for four hours straight, assuming that a nuclear strike had occurred.
R9e6 TIL that they’ve put armed rangers on guard 24/7 to protect the last male northern white rhino left on Earth
1anMO TIL that in 1945, at the United Nations Conference on International Organisation, the USSR requested that all 15 Soviet Republics be made members of the UN to better represent the people of the east. The US countered this by requesting that all 50 US states be made members of the UN.