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TIL John Fogerty Was Sued for Plagerising Himself

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QlA6 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)
OWOg TIL that a portuguese soldier who ran out of bullets during the siege of Diu extracted his own teeth and armed his weapon with it, firing against the enemy that was considering he was out of ammunition.
E9eP TIL there is a proposal for Canada, The United States, and Mexico to abandon their native currencies for a shared currency, similar to the euro.
kJYX5 TIL Canon, written in the 17th Century by Johann Pachelbel, is well-known music often played at weddings and Christmas. But it was forgotten after it was written and languished in obscurity for centuries. It wasn't published until 1919; wasn't recorded until 1940; was virtually unknown until 1968.
VMp5Z TIL that the Earth would have to turn once every 84 minutes or 17 times faster than the current speed in order for humans to be thrown off the planet, when the centrifugal force would be bigger than the force of gravity that holds us "down".