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TIL the Great Wall of China is not actually visible from space, its just a myth.

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Eg1x TIL it was claimed the reason the character Tracy replaced Brock in the cast of Pokemon was because it was thought he might be perceived as a racist stereotype because of his eyes. They later replaced him with Brock again once they realized that no one really cared.
XEn8r TIL that it takes your GPS receiver up to 12 minutes to adjust the time correctly. The GPS time is presently 18 seconds ahead of UTC because they started timekeeping in 1980 and can't factor in leap seconds.
16O6X TIL the US enacted permanent Daylight Savings Time in 1973. It was repealed within a year when public support for it plummeted after the following winter.