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TIL there are some time zones in the world that are offset 30 (or even 45) minutes (instead of the usual 60 minutes) from UTC (Coordinated Universal Time)

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vPYBD TIL that in the 1970 film Waterloo, to recreate the battle sequences, production hired 17,000 members of the Soviet Army and trained them in 1815 battle formations.
X0aEX TIL that in the first Polish-language encyclopedia, the definition of Horse was: "Everyone can see what a Horse is"
nenZW TIL that Notch, aka Markus Persson, had his PayPal account frozen for a suspicious withdrawal or deposit when he made $750,000 from early Minecrafat sales.
nWwJd TIL of Edgar Nollner, who, upon his death in 1999, was the longest surviving musher of The Serum Run - a mission to deliver diphtheria antitoxin by dog sled to an Alaskan town of Nome. During his later years, Edgar was married twice, had 23 children and over 200 grandchildren.
PY6NZ TIL Artificial Banana Flavored Food tastes more like what bananas used to taste like and bananas today don't taste as they should