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JYZJk TIL there exists a separate time zone on the moon. It’s called Lunar Standard Time (LST) and the calendar started on July 21st, 1969 at 02:56:15 UT, the moment Neil Armstrong stepped foot on the moon.
PYnyJ TIL: Until the 1970s, countries and individual cities had "ugly laws".These laws deemed it illegal for "any person, who is diseased, maimed, mutilated or deformed in any way, so as to be an unsightly or disgusting object, to expose himself or herself to public view."
oBD8o TIL the term "Pipe Dream" originated from the opium dens of the old west, where people would hallucinate after smoking too much opium.
ydda TIL the biggest church in the world is located in Ivory Coast, Africa.
VZ1Z TIL iron in the red sand beaches of the Galapagos islands is responsible for fertilizing the surrounding ocean and supports the entire diverse local food chain. Humans could artificially do the same with mineral iron in any ocean