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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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0GZj TIL A Swedish artist named Max Martin has written or co-written almost every major hit by Brittany Spears, Katy Perry , Pink, Kelly Clarkson, & The Backstreet Boys as well as various hits by Justin Beiber, N'SYNC, Taylor Swift & Maroon 5.
4XGrX TIL that Steven Thrasher was awarded free cigarettes for life from Phillip Morris as part of a settlement following being shot by his supervisor in 1974 and had to sue when they tried to stop.
0w5by TIL In a study on lung cancer patients, 48% of subjects had quit smoking prior to diagnosis, usually easily, despite prior attempts. Lung cancer tumors secrete a substance that disrupts nicotine addiction, but the study was buried because scientists worried it would encourage people to keep smoking.
pYyEZ TIL Viet Thanh Nguyen is the first Asian American to sit on the Pulitzer prize board
oN0L TIL That homosexuality in China was considered a “normal fact of life” and the appearance of homophobia is attributed to influence of Christianity and Islam.