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TIL France has 12 time zones. This is more than any other country.

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Z8wGa TIL that Hitler got the idea to sterilize the physically and mentally handicap from the success of the United States program in the 1930's, the US stopped due to not wanting to be associated with that image.
Zp5L4 TIL: The inventor of the first digital camera, Steve Sasson, worked at Kodak. He built the prototype in 1975, but Kodak shelved it because they feared it would cannibalize...
gr7G4 TIL Switzerland prohibits the ownership of just one guinea pig. Since guinea pigs are such social creatures, one guinea pig would get lonely so having just one is considered animal abuse in Switzerland.
neLO9 TIL the heaviest American-produced car is the 1967 Lincoln Continental convertible, weighing 5,712 lb. The oil crisis of the 1970s resulted in the downsizing of American vehicles, and the Continental maintains the record to this day.
VMorQ TIL there is a condition called Aphantasia, where a person is unable to conjure up visual images in their imagination. When they close their eyes and think of an object, there is no visual imagery of the object - instead they imagine concepts that would describe the object.