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TIL Russia has 11 time zones

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YpAjd TIL in 1965, a Swedish student was told by his fiancée in East Germany that she would never be able to leave the country to live with him in Sweden. Undeterred, he took flying lessons for a year, illegally flew a Cessna from Austria into Czechoslovakia, smuggled her out, and married her in Sweden
lomEB TIL Stalin loved Charlie Chaplin movies, and even cried at the last scene of City Lights, but he banned The Great Dictator from screening in the USSR. Stalin apparently was afraid that the image of the dictator Adenoid Hynkel would bring up an unwanted comparison – not to Hitler, but to himself.
WWKY TIL that the head baker on the Titanic got drunk while the ship was sinking, was the last one on the ship as he “rode it down like an elevator” into the water, and was able to tread water for 2 hours hardly feeling the cold thanks to the alcohol he imbibed which allowed him to survive.
e0bNE TIL Teddy Roosevelt once had his boat stolen by three armed thieves. With the help of two friends he built a new boat and personally tracked down and captured the thieves.
gLVy TIL the US is finally getting rid of the obsolete swipe-and-sign credit card payment method (starting in October of this year with a ‘liability shift’)