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TIL that the two biggest indoor arenas in the world, the KJC King Dome and the Philippine arena, are both owned by cults

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neoYd TIL: Since all the longitude lines meet in Antarctica, the South Pole has no specific time zone. Many stations use the time of the country they are owned by, and many areas have no time zone since nothing is decided and there are not even any temporary settlements with any clocks.
Oor7X TIL in 1987, 18 month-old Jessica McClure fell into a well in a backyard in Texas. CNN covered the rescue effort, which took 56 hours, and the story found worldwide attention. In 2011, McClure, aged 25, received a trust fund of donations from around the world. She has no memory of the event.
XER4j TIL that in 1777 the Sultanate of Morocco was the first county to recognize the United States as an independent nation with a treaty of peace and friendship.
E1N4x TIL an aerodynamic wind tunnel was installed at the base of the Eiffel tower in 1909. The tunnel was used to carryout out thousands of tests, including those on Wright Brothers airplanes and Porsche automobiles. The tower had a laboratory used by scientists to study meteorology, physiology.
ggo7 TIL An ad campaign used DNA found on discarded cigarette butts to construct digital portraits to publicly shame litterbugs