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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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W7E1N TIL that the UK used pit ponies (for coal mines) until 1994, then waited until 2011 to propose removing legislation governing pit ponies. And the last four working pit ponies were called Alan, Carl, Tom and Flax.
0dmmL TIL states that passed laws allowing a married person to seek a divorce without the consent of their spouse saw female suicide decline by 20 percent
bGO4 TIL that the part of a drinking fountain that sticks up behind the spout is there to keep you from wrapping your lips around the spout.
yVl1X TIL during the two decades that the famous advertising campaign 'Got Milk?' ran, it reached an estimated 80% of all US consumers on any given day. By the end of the campaign, around 350 national TV and print ads had been used including 70 commercials in California alone.
0dva1 TIL that bricks of tea were used as currency in ancient China, Tibet, and Central Asia.