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TIL that the country of Kiribati has the most advanced time on Earth (UTC+14 hours), and the entire country is spread across all four hemispheres in an expanse of ocean equivalent in size to the continental United States.

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Z8llp TIL When Washington became president, he scrapped the plans for "Washington monument" as he didn’t want to use public money for a personal memorial monument. Long after he died, In 1833 a small group of Washingtonians established a society to raise private funds for the project and got it built.
ADp7g TIL that the first Olympics had an event called Pankration, a mix of wrestling and boxing where the only restrictions were of biting/gouging. Breaking digits and dislocating limbs was common, the battle only ending in death/surrender. The Greeks invented sports medicine in response to this event.
Wx99 TIL In the late 1970s, a cache of nude photos was found containing images of all incoming freshmen at Yale, Harvard, and Princeton, and other Ivy League schools. The reason for the photos is still debated.
m1V1Y TIL the proposed area of Utah was much larger, but as silver, gold and other resources were found, the federal government stripped that land away and created parts of Nevada, Wyoming and Colorado. The Feds were nervous about what the Mormons would do if they had so much money.
N7E48 TIL in 1578, the king of Portugal launched a crusade against Morocco. The crusade ended with a single battle wherein the king of Portugal, the sultan of Morocco, and the previously deposed sultan of Morocco all died.