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TIL Timbuktu is an ancient city in Mali, North Africa.

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4Wda TIL that the entirety of China follows one timezone, despite the fact that it spans five. This is due to the Communist party’s efforts to create a unified nation and results in a 10am sunrise and midnight sunset in some areas of the country.
j6P5a TIL The British King during the American Revolution was George III. His wife, Queen Charlotte bore 15 children and 13 lived to adulthood. From those 13, only 8 legitimate heirs were born including the Queen Victoria.
5VRm9 TIL That Prince has enough unreleased material to put out an album ever year for the next 100 years.
00ay TIL The first man to fly a plane Orville Wright) & the first man to walk on the moon (Buzz Aldrin) were alive at the same time. Buzz was 17 when Orville died and his father was good friends with Orville.
pxAp TIL Tesla once paid an overdue hotel bill with a model of his “death beam”, warning hotel staff to never open it. After his death in 1943 the box was pried open and found to contain nothing but harmless old electrical components.