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TIL clocks run from left to right because in the Northern hemisphere that's how sundials cast shadows (bonus: in an attempt to recover their cultural identity, Bolivians installed an anti-clockwise clock in their Congress building)

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88V8 TIL that the guy that made John 3:16 famous on TV ended up in prison for taking a maid hostage proclaiming the end of the world.
nedP TIL there is a material that is so dense, “if you had a cubic centimeter…, it would weigh 40 billion tons.”
yVype TIL Mel B of the Spice Girls had a portion of a tattoo with her ex husband’s name surgically removed from her body, sealed it in a jar, and kept it on top of her wardrobe.
xVM8g TIL the U.S. government saved every public tweet from 2006 through 2017 Starting in 2018, the Library of Congress decided to only keep tweets on “a very selective basis,” including elections and those dealing with something of national interest, like public policy.
KDeR TIL in 1970 cannabis was placed in Schedule-1 category of controlled drugs “Temporarily” while the Nixon Administration awaited the Shafer Report, which ended up calling for the immediate end to cannabis prohibition.