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TIL Arizona and Hawaii are the only two US states that don’t observe Daylight Savings Time

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W7jNB TIL that Dr. Grover Krantz, the first serious academic to study the existence of Sasquatch, has his skeleton, along with that of his Irish Wolf Hound, on display at the Smithsonian.
wNZE TIL that McArthur Wheeler robbed two banks after covering his face with lemon juice in the mistaken belief that, because lemon juice is usable as invisible ink, it would prevent his face from being recorded on surveillance cameras.
9wNkM TIL of the British political movement “disestablishmentarianism”, which advocated separation of church and state. Those who oppose this movement are called “antidisestablishmentarianists”.
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a709 TIL that in 1952 while in an institution Charles Manson held a razor to another boy’s throat while he sodomized him before being released on parole in 1954.