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TIL a watch strapped to your ankle will eventually fall behind one strapped to your wrist due to time dilation

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x6bV5 TIL the kid characters in Nickelodeon's "Hey Arnold!" (1996) were all voiced by real kids.
4k6NX TIL of John R. Baylor the self-proclaimed 'governor' of Arizona who was a Confederate Colonel whose self-appointment was later approved by Jefferson Davis. Baylor gave orders to exterminate the indigenous Apache and when Davis got wind of it he rescinded the orders as well as Baylor's governorship.
9vB TIL as a promise to a friend dying of bone cancer, a man ran across the U.S. at 16, becoming the fastest and youngest person to accomplish the feat.
myNY TIL that due to the events of 9/11, the Alt Hip-Hop group ‘The Coup’ had to change their [Party Music] album cover (depicting The Twin Towers blowing-up) before their initial September of 2001 release date. The scrapped album cover had been originally made back in June of that year…
aw15L TIL that Pakistan, a profiled Islamic nation, democratically elected a female Prime Minister in 1988 and 1993, Benazir Bhutto, thus becoming the first muslim majority nation lead by a woman.