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TIL Nepal and Chatham Islands (of New Zealand) are the only places in the world with 15 minute offset from a standard time zone. (Nepal is UTC+05:45 and Chatham Islands is UTC+12:45 at the moment)

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epymk TIL that in 1983 a Mexcian Gulftstream jet was forced to make an emergency landing on the Mallow Racecourse near Cork, Ireland and subsequently was stuck there for 39 days until a locals were able to construct a temporary runway to allow the plane to take off again
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