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TIL no time zone has been assigned to the North Pole, so any time can be used as the local time

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DQk6p TIL That the weird animated fish from Gaither's Pond is voiced by Mark Lowry, who wrote the famous Christmas song, "Mary Did You Know?".
Z8YQa TIL about a species of human that grew no larger than a modern 3-year-old child and lived on a remote island in Indonesia 18,000 years ago. These humans lived alongside Homo sapiens. They manufactured sophisticated stone tools, hunted elephants, and more, all with a brain only 1/3 the size of ours.
oBWYA TIL The amount of solar energy reaching the surface of Earth is so vast that in one year it is about twice as much as will ever be obtained from all of the Earth's non-renewable resources of coal, oil, natural gas, and mined uranium combined
v1Kr8 TIL a tax auditor in Finland died at his desk in his office, and no one realized he was dead for 2 days.
OoDo7 TIL that Joe Perry sold his 1959 Gibson Les Paul during his 1982 divorce. Later he found the guitar was owned by Slash. Perry called Slash and bugged him for years, offering to pay more than the guitar's worth. Years later at Joe's 50th birthday party, Slash finally gave him the guitar as a gift.