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TIL America own an uninhabited zone called Howland and Baker Island, halfway between Australia and Hawaii. It observes it's own time zone called "Anywhere on Earth". A day has passed everywhere on Earth according to this time. Amelia Earhart was trying to reach here in 1937 before she disappeared.

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