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TIL Watch companies have an “official time” at which every watch is set before being photographed. Timex watches are always set to 10:09:36, while Rolex watches are always set to 10:10:31 on Monday the 28th.

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xngg TIL when Forrest Gump gets up to talk at the Vietnam rally in Washington, and you cannot hear him, he says, “Sometimes when people go to Vietnam, they go home to their mommas without any legs. Sometimes they don’t go home at all. That’s a bad thing. That’s all I have to say about that.”
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