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TIL There are 30 min and 45 min Time Zones, like Iran, India, Myanmar and some parts of Australia.

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N7PEE TIL that the first known recording of a human voice was made in 1860, but was only intended to show a sound wave visually, not to be played back. In 2008, it was optically scanned and converted to a sound file, revealing it to be a man singing "Au clair de la lune".
nWBJY TIL The passenger vehicle occupant fatality rate at nighttime is about three times higher than the daytime rate. ... The data shows a higher percentage of passenger vehicle occupants killed in speeding-related crashes at nighttime.
YpapP TIL There are actually eight continents, with the eighth, being nearly 95% submerged, called Zealandia.
N7Q91 TIL that during a prisoner revolt at Auschwitz in 1944, an SS guard was burned alive by prisoners in a crematorium oven
5VN1k TIL In 1907, Grace Oakeshott, a British women's rights activist, faked her death to run off with her extramarital lover. It seems her husband was in on the plan, as both found it preferable to a divorce. Grace and her lover moved to New Zealand where they had 3 children before Grace's death in 1929.