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TIL two kids burnt down a 14th century castle by accident

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QlA6 TIL Nepal and Chatham Islands (of New Zealand) are the only places in the world with 15 minute offset from a standard time zone. (Nepal is UTC+05:45 and Chatham Islands is UTC+12:45 at the moment)
Ry46 TIL Japanese scientists took some cherry tree seeds to space for 6 months. When returned to earth and planted, the trees first flowered 6 years earlier than expected with unfamiliar flowers. Scientists still don’t know why.
9EEB TIL that having children in your early 20s was a US cultural norm only for baby boomers, and that earlier in the 20th-century eugenicists had warned against it
g9j7 TIL Dick Bong is the USs highest air ace, shooting down at least 40 planes during WW II. He actually collided with one plane, claiming a “probable” victory. In 1945, he became a Lockheed test pilot and died in a crash of a P-80 jet fighters on the same day that the bomb was dropped on Hiroshima.
yVPo8 TIL about "Rose's Law", which is the "Moore's Law of Moore's Law" for quantum computation. It states that the quantity of qubits in a quantum computer doubles every 1.5-2 years. However, this results in exponential exponential growth of computing power.