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TIL Firefighters use water to fight fire becasue it expands to steam and displaces oxygen, not because it cools the fire down

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LkwkQ TIL India has used 3 time zones in the past - Bombay, Madras and Calcutta, with Madras time zone (being in between the other two) used by the railways all around the country. Neither of them had the arbitrary UTC+X(.5) time offset. The present day IST is closest to the Madras time.
oBKjo TIL that Russia gave the United States a memorial to the victims of 9/11
oAMR TIL Branden Bremmer, a child prodigy who read books at 18 months, played the piano at age 3 and started college at age 11, commited suicide at age 14 with no signs of depression, no suicide note or pressure form his parents to succeed.
E1ww0 TIL about George McJunkin, a former slave and self educated geologist, who discovered the remains of an ancient bison that had been killed by humans in New Mexico. This discovery is the basis for our current timeline of when humans migrated to the Americas.
l7e01 TIL Samsung started out dealing in dried-fish, groceries, and noodles