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TIL Hawaii observes Hawaii Standard Time all year. There are no Daylight Saving Time clock changes.

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5e78 TIL Liam Neeson was offered the role of James Bond in Goldeneye (1995) but turned down the role because he wasn’t interested in starring in action movies.
PYpOn TIL sculptor Giorgio Gikas, while battling colon cancer built an 11 foot statue of Robocop that was an idea from a resident of Detroit that said “ Philadelphia has a statue of rocky & Robocop would kick Rockys butt”
lEmA TIL Congress added the “Under God” phrase to the Pledge of Allegiance during the Cold War. This symbolized the resistance to communists, who were atheists.
4X5yN TIL that Jamaica has a national bobsleigh team. Since its debut in 1988, they have represented their country in the Winter Olympics seven times—six times for the men's team, and once for the women's team.
xVkP7 TIL that at least one person has been killed by a lava lamp. In 2004, Philip Quinn decided to heat his lava lamp on the kitchen stove. The lamp exploded, shooting a shard of glass into his heart and ending his life.