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TIL Russia has 11 time zones

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Oo1BR TIL about the Border Reivers, Scottish and English mercenary bandits who raided both sides of the border with no loyalty to either kingdom.
yQBXe TIL that there is a water bridge in Germany that connects the Elbe-Havel Canal to the Mittelland Canal, and allows ships to cross over the Elbe River
a4L0 TIL a woman once tried to sue Nickelodeon, claiming she couldn’t have sex because Marc Summers threw a pie at her face on Double Dare. The network gave her $25,000 to “go away.“
XxZP TIL that in the mid 90s you could get a network adapter for the SNES and Genesis that allowed you to play online multiplayer in games like MarioKart, MK3 and NBA Jam
NG78 TIL as a PhD student, American mathematician George Bernard Dantzig showed up late to a statistics class and mistook two famous unsolved statistics problems as homework. He solved them and turned them in a week later, believing his assignment was overdue.