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TIL- Most countries DO NOT use Daylight Savings Time.

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ObyL TIL that a certain easter egg in Batman: Arkham Asylum went unfound for so long that the creators went and announced it themselves.
7O1b TIL a chimpanzee that was socialized to humans since birth could log onto a computer to look at pictures, watch television using a remote control, brush his teeth, feed hay to his owner’s horses, water plants and learned the schedule of passing ice cream trucks.
p8vk8 TIL The planet Scarif from Rogue One: A Star Wars Story got its name from a misspelling of director Gareth Edwards’s name on a coffee cup. “I must’ve said ‘It’s Gareth’ and they wrote Scarif.”
yere TIL the original version of the French film, The Passion of Joan of Arc, was lost in a fire, the master negatives were found 53 years later in a Norwegian mental institute by a janitor in a closet.
6Eb5Q Today I learned that a 2013 study reclassified Pygmy Right Whales as a member of the cetotheres, a previously thought extinct group of baleen whales that were prey to the megalodon, among others. This effectively brings the family ‘back from the dead.’