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TIL On this day (November 18th) in 1883 Standard Time zones were established

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OkwX TIL: Singapore used sand from rival Indonesia to grow its land mass. This was banned after Indonesians realized they were literally ceding sovereign land to another nation.
jN9BN TIL in the early 1940's the group, ABCDEF (American Boys' Club for the Defense of Errol Flynn) was formed
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LQ1nm TIL that Albania had no standard gauge railways until 1947, built over 660km (410mi) in forty years, then closed the entire network in 2021.