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TIL France is the country with the most time zones

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5YnpR TIL that the "Pillars of Creation" within the Eagle Nebula are about 4-5 Light years tall
D1nOD TIL a Spanish archives director who only showed up to work to sign-in & sign-out for 10 years. During the time that he was "working," he ran a male brothel and was an erotic comic book artist who created a busty superheroine named Fallarela "who hurls flaming Valencia oranges at her enemies"
LkkN0 TIL Cash On Delivery (C.O.D.) is still a thing
VMwG4 TIL Popeye used to eat spinach because German chemist Wolf miscalculated the amount of iron(to 10x) in spinach
DbRe TIL both of Geddy Lee’s (lead singer/bassist of Rush) parents were Holocaust survivors. First imprisoned at Auschwitz, they were separated to Bergen-Belsen and Dachau; they found each other after Allied liberation, married, and emigrated to Canada.