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TIL that Samoa is 24 hours ahead of American Samoa despite being only 30 miles away

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4xBg TIL that the Great Stork Derby was a contest held in Toronto from 1926-1936, in which women competed to produce the most babies in order to win $750K as stipulated in the will of a wealthy lawyer. The prize ended up being split among four women who each had 9 babies.
d8N8E TIL Ethiopia named one of it's cities squares in Addis Ababa after Mexico, because it was one of only 5 countries that refused to recognize Italy's annexation of Ethiopia during the Second Italo-Ethiopian War
xVW6w TIL that the ice pick used to kill Leon Trotsky is on display at the International Spy Museum in Washington, District of Columbia
Y8Kx TIL there is a gypsy tribe in India that celebrates death as one of the happiest events in their lives, while treating births as occasions of great grief.
6EB47 TIL that most of the Methane produced by cows comes from Belching and not farting