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TIL that the time zone UTC-12:00 is the only one that is completely uninhabited

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rN0Pe TIL: A study from the UK, from that surfers are 3x more likely to have a unique antibiotic-resistant bacteria due to how much fecal matter they unknowingly ingest from UK seawater. They study did this through butt swabs from participants. It also highlights how dirty UK seawater is.
1aWlP TIL Admiral Karl Dönitz would contact U-boats under his command up to 70 times a day to ask them about their position, fuel levels, and other minutiae. This frequent contact between Dönitz & his U-boats helped the Allies to break German ciphers
MeOma TIL a British double agent codenamed “Zigzag” volunteered to blow up Adolf Hitler in a suicide mission, but was rejected by MI5
VMleZ TIL White Castle became popular because of public reaction to Upton Sinclair’s “The Jungle”. To make sure that customers thought their food was clean, the buildings were painted completely white, the interiors were made of stainless steel, and the employees all wore spotless uniforms
graE7 TIL That Not only were programs & games once stored on audio cassettes, some of the earliest forms of program sharing & Data transmission were done via radio broadcasts with audio that you would record to a write a program to a cassette tape.