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TIL that despite no formal studies or initiatives to that effect, many schools have stopped using bells to signal class changes, instead simply following the clock

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GA9KG TIL Tyre Nichols was a skater with some cool skills. It's good to see him in his prime and contrast that with the released videos published today.
9YKwr TIL that the character of Abed Nadir from Community is one of the few pop culture characters seen as a reasonably accurate representation of Autism, and is especially important because he rarely falls into the Pinocchio Syndrome (I just want to be a real boy!) trope so common in movies and tv.
OGZYY TIL that at the North Pole there is no local time since all lines of longitude, and thus all time zones, converge there. The sun rises, and sets only once per year, meaning that the sun's position could also not be used to synchronise time.
aw9ry TIL that the US once fed information to the USSR about an extremely deadly nerve gas called "GJ" that was nearly impossible to create. Although initially intended to waste Soviet resources on a wild goose chase, the project to replicate "GJ" ended up producing the now-infamous Novichok agents.
69Q8J TIL that the writers on Futurama created and proved a new mathematical theorem as a plot point for a body-switching episode.