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TIL Spain is in the "wrong" timezone because Franco aligned it with Nazi Germany in 1940, and it was never changed back.

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KYY9J TIL Andre 3000 will on occasion assume an alias when producing music, one of these names being Dookieblossumgame III.
6E9JY TIL - Half of Irish Travellers (i.e. Gypsies) do not live past the age of 39 and unemployment among male Travellers is 73%.
aKRy TIL that in 1982 3 men spent more than six months living on a billboard in an attempt to outlast the others to win a radio contest for a $18,000 home. One of the men was arrested half way into the contest for selling weed from on top of the billboard.
wLDQJ TIL of Felis nigripes: the African Black-footed Cat, aka "the deadliest cat on earth", weighing in at under 5 lbs. It kills 10 - 14 rodents or birds per night to satisfy its accelerated metabolism. The Black-footed Cat has a kill rate of 60%, whereas a lion's kill rate is about 25%.
DQv0j TIL the Japanese attacked California in WWII in the Bombardment of Ellwood