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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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nebwd TIL In 1903, H. Nelson Jackson, Sewall Crocker, and their dog Bud made the first successful transcontinental automobile trip. The journey was arduous and slow, but their trip made headlines wherever they went, proving that long-distance road travel was a real—if expensive and difficult—possibility.
1O47 TIL that in the US, you are almost 2x more likely to kill yourself than you are to be killed by someone else. Furthermore, you are 74x more likely to die of heart disease or a malignant tumor than be murdered.
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