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TIL Mars had a prime meridian (+0 hour timezone) 50 years before Earth

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4keGJ TIL in 1972, at the height of the Troubles, the Irish Republican Army allowed an American TV crew to film its members as they engaged in weapons training, patrols, gun battles and bombing missions across Northern Ireland.
rpk4 TIL a doctor in Canada is about to begin clinical testing of “Bionic Lenses” that can correct vision to 3 times 20/20 vision with an 8 minute, pain-free surgery. The lenses could be available in as little as 2 years.
4m7o TIL in the 1920’s, Joseph Stalin sent a breeding expert to Africa to mate humans and chimpanzees in an attempt to create a monkey-man army.
EER7 TIL that One in Four Patients with Newly-Diagnosed Erectile Dysfunction is a Young Man
E10xP TIL Queen Elizabeth II still has a 'Champion' for purposes of trial by combat and it's Francis John Fane Marmion Dymoke, a 65-year-old chartered accountant.