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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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oBLJA TIL of Alfred Nakache, a Jewish-French swimmer who held the 200m men’s breaststroke record, was deported to Auschwitz where his wife and daughter were murdered, yet came back to compete in the 1948 London Olympics
ZLJ4 TIL that Sri Lanka and India were connected as recently as the 15th century by a chain of limestone shoals known as “Adam’s Bridge”
PkkV TIL when Yao Ming played his first game in Miami, the Heat promoted the game by passing out 8,000 fortune cookies. Yao wasn’t offended because he had never seen a fortune cookie, and assumed it was an American invention
mxXPR TIL while filming for the Lord of the Rings, Sean Bean once climbed a mountain for two hours alone to reach a set location because he did not want to take a helicopter up like everyone else.
7PvL TIL That Portobello Mushrooms are the same as white mushrooms, they’re just left to grow for longer