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TIL that in 1994 the Government of Kiribati introduced a change in time zone for its eastern half that led to the International Date Line to move over 1,000 km eastwards to go around the country

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vP1vK TIL that Bullitt's Lick, a salt lick near Shepherdsville, Kentucky, was the first commercial supplier of salt in Kentucky, and its saltworks was the first industry in Kentucky.
ny4G TIL we typically do not start to think of foods as “too sweet” until our bone growth stops. Younger children have virtually no limit to the amount of sugar they find palatable.
DVkV TIL that Vincent van Gogh’s last words were, “The sadness will last forever.”
aGkJ TIL that over 1000 priceless books disappeared from a mountaintop abbey to the confusion of the monks and the local police, and despite reinforcing the library’s doors and changing its locks. Turned out the culprit was using a long-forgotten secret passageway found in the public archives.
yQJEw TIL Alan Turing proposed gin (the alcohol) as a medium in which to store data in a computer