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TIL clockwise was called sunwise before the invention of clocks.

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O4Be TIL A baboon was employed by the railroad as a signalman. He never once made a mistake and worked for the railroad until his death.
5Ydr8 TIL Stephen Hawking’s ashes are buried beneath a memorial stone inscribed with his equation for the Hawking temperature of black holes. To commemorate his death, Hawking’s own words were beamed towards the nearest known black hole to Earth, about 3,500 light years away, by the European Space Agency
4Rbg TIL that Abraham Lincoln successfully defended a criminal defendant by using an almanac to challenge a man’s assertion that he saw the murderer “By the light of the moon.”
4mE6 TIL declawing cats is illegal in 22 country’s.
KOOgG TIL that despite being the 23rd most populated country, the UK's rail network is the 5th most used in the world. Also, unlike comparable countries, its rail use continues to grow and 'improve'.