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TIL that daylight savings time has its own timezones and DST observing places must make a conversion for schedules notated in standard time in spring/summer of the same “zone”.

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mx6WM TIL Grasshoppers are older than grass, having evolved roughly 250 million years ago
R7gWj TIL in 1971 John List murdered his family to save their souls and arranged their bodies on sleeping bags. He then cleaned up, cut himself out of the family’s photos, turned on a religious radio station, and fled. Only after the lights in the house had burned out one by one did neighbors call police.
KO8BB TIL that the German town Donaueschingen is where the Danube river is born and they have a monument for that, the Donauquelle
6j7Q TIL some people in the USA modify their cars to produce thick black diesel smoke to protest/annoy cyclists and environmentalist. It’s called ‘Rolling Coal’
m1mbE TIL In English law priests used to be allowed to commit one murder and face no further consequences beyond having a thumb branded. These benefits of the clergy would be reduced in 1512 and heavily altered by the end of the 1500s.