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TIL Chester (UK) does not have a west facing clock, due to it facing wales. So they literally would not give Wales the time of day

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vP4X8 TIL the youngest person to ever give birth was just 5 years old
4kPaR TIL ‘Police Academy’ writer, Neal Israel, was once married to ‘Clueless’ director, Amy Heckerling, and they had a daughter named Molly. After DNA testing, it turns out Molly’s father was actually ‘Ghostbusters’ legend, Harold Ramis.
ZAAB TIL music sounds better when heard with the left ear, while the right ear is more efficient at deciphering speech.
KYGEB TIL about Dan Rather, a journalist, saved thousands of lives during Hurricane Carla in 1961. He created the first radar weather report, which helped initiate the evacuation of 350,000 people.
rroW TIL there is a farm in the middle of Kansas to which 600 million IP addresses are registered due to a glitch in the IP mapping software which maps them close to the geographical centre of the USA.