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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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lOoa TIL the famous party song, “Fight for Your Right” by the Beastie Boys, was actually a parody of the party lifestyle. Mike D commented, “The only thing that upsets me is that we might have reinforced certain values of some people in our audience when our own values were actually totally different…”
neowY TIL Companies will intentionaly alter the sounds of their products. For example, they will make a car engine sound louder as to make us think it is more powerful or make a vacuum cleaner louder to make us think it is sucking up more dirt and dust.
AOnn TIL there is literally no evidence that cell phones interfere with planes. The ban was based on this isolated incident.
woEyW TIL The Four Minute Men were American volunteers who gave propaganda speeches during the First World War. The speeches were four minutes long because they often spoke in movie theaters where it took four minutes to change film reels. Speakers also often modified the speech for the local audience.
Bryyy TIL about the Parsley Massacre, in which Dominican soldiers identified and killed thousands of Haitian migrants based on their pronunciation of the Spanish word for parsley.