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TIL Big Ben Clock Towers time is kept accurate by adding or removing pennies on its pendulum changing the clock’s speed by +/- 0.4 seconds per day

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DZjj TIL A family won Extreme Home Makeover due to having adopted 5+ kids. After the house was finished, all of the children were “returned” or sent to other foster parents.
5g6D TIL The Soviets would not only kill political enemies, but would also alter photos containing them, as if to erase them from history.
XEbXk TIL I learned an American-born, Irish-raised, fascist, nicknamed Lord Haw-Haw went to Germany to broadcast Nazi propaganda to the UK in a British accent during WWII.
Ooyee TIL that Hungarian comedian Géza Hofi used to give sarcastic "shout-outs" to government informers and secret police spies watching his shows during the Communist era. He got away with it because his act was seen as a way for people to blow off steam under the authoritarian regime.
YpjYG TIL in 2003 voters in Georgia approved the adoption the Confederate flag as the Flag of Georgia with the only change being the addition of a yellow state seal