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TIL Daylight Saving Time was made temporarily permanent in 1974

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M7NaA TIL that the Magnolia is a plant species with roots going back before even bees, so it doesn’t produce any nectar! Instead it’s pollinated by beetles
lmga TIL a woman was elected to the US house of representatives in 1916, four years before women won the right to vote nationwide
QG6a TIL more Americans live in Mexico City than Wyoming.
woEL7 TIL That according to a long standing tradition, every year after the last supply plane left Antarctica for the winter and the base was buttoned up for a long dark wait until spring, the whole crew would gather in the lounge together to watch The Thing.
JxKj TIL of Clifford Johnson. He held the title of most severely burned person ever to survive, after making 4 trips into the Coconut Grove fire to save his girlfriend - carrying out survivors each time. He later learned his girlfriend had actually escaped earlier. 14 years later he died in a car fire.