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TIL the U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill in April 1989 that would delay the end of PDT in presidential election years until after the election. Never signed into law, Pacific-New was inserted into many west coast Unix systems and they failed to make the conversion to PST on 1992 Oct 25.

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w1bM TIL John Malkovich named his film company after a Thai man (storied to be a convicted murderer) who was his driver during the filming of The Killing Fields. “Mr. Mudd” would run of bicyclists and old women off the road, and say: ‘Sometime Mr. Mudd kill. Sometime Mr. Mudd not kill.’
OGMy7 TIL NYC Photographer Jamie Livingston shot a Polaroid photo everyday for 6,000 days between March 1979 and October 1997. The first shot was of his girlfriend at the time and his last photo was on his deathbed, dying of cancer
0wRaL TIL that in Brazil, you are not generally expected to be on time to social engagements, unless someone specifies “English Time”. Outside of Western Europe, US, Japan, and Korea, punctuality largely does not have high importance.
8erAa TIL that Robin William’s final film role was a voice role as Dennis the Dog for Absolutely Anything directed by a pal of his Terry Jones of Monty Python fame.
newmr TIL Caesar Rodney rode 70 miles in a thunderstorm, while it was night time to be the deciding vote for the Declaration Of Independence, arriving in Philadelphia in time for his crucial vote to split from the United Kingdom.