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TIL the timezone on the International Space Station is GMT+0

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X0AQR TIL: Baseballs used in MLB have been rubbed with a special mud from a secret river in New Jersey for over 75 years to comply with a rule that all baseballs must be "properly rubbed so that the gloss is removed".
E1vV0 TIL that Sony's Playstation only came to be because Nintendo ended development on an extension for their SNES
O7X1 TIL after an 81yo Colorado man died on a snowy hiking trail, a helicopter crashed trying to reach him. Once rescue workers finally got to his body, they found his loyal Golden Retriever at his side protecting his body from coyotes and other scavangers
6BPQ TIL that there was a real “Inglorious Basterds” operation in Nazi Germany, which ended with Jewish US soldiers negotiating the surrender of Innsbruck after being tortured.
XERJP TIL the U.S banned books and films about Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings in Japan as well as all satirical cartoons of General MacArthur.