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TIL: Space Ghost Coast to Coast was essentially killed by AOL.

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Yp8nZ TIL about British Double Summer Time. During WW2, after moving an hour forward for DST in 1940, they didn’t roll back in fall. They moved forward again in spring of ‘41, resulting in being 2 hours ahead. It helped people finish their day and get home with some extra light during enforced blackouts.
D1Zmj TIL aluminum is so corrosion resistant because where iron and steel rust, Al combines with oxygen to form a material even harder than aluminum itself, called corundum. This is the second hardest naturally occurring material, next to diamond.
BgMMx TIL Fred Durst was a break dance champion.
4kB6N TIL the Persian Gulf was once a very fertile and inhabited valley having flooded during the start of recorded history during the time of the Sumerians
j6J6v TIL the sun’s tide-generating force is about half that of the moon (Thurman, H.V., 1994).