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TIL that Coco Chanel was a Nazi.

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M7LRA TIL that city pairs Wilmington DE/NC and Charleston WV/SC are almost the same distance apart, ~472 miles.
QJaO6 TIL that most time and clock systems on computers will stop working at exactly 03:14:07 UTC on January 19 2038 because their time is stored as a 32-digit binary number which will become more than 32 digits when it reaches 3:14:07.
8e0PG TIL that not only has it been more than fifty years since a person last set foot on the moon, the entire period of crewed missions to the lunar surface only lasted three and a half years.
6WOm TIL in 1998 Iran was prepared to invade Afghanistan and oust the Taliban from power. Talks with the United States persuaded Iran not to.
JYGWB TIL Before clocks were commonplace, the terms "sunwise" and "deasil" from the Latin root "dexter" ("right") were used for clockwise. "Widdershins" (from Middle Low German "weddersinnes", "opposite course") was used for counterclockwise