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TIL that the longest overdue book was late by 288 years
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TIL that New Zealand was the first country in the world, by some years, to introduce a national standard time. “NZMT” (New Zealand Mean Time) was introduced in 1868.
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TIL a guy dissected every scene from lost and put them in a chronological timeline. He took every flashback, flash forward, and flash sideways, extracting them from the present day stroyline, and one big timeline.
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TIL that during the French Revolution more than 4,000,000 volumes were burnt, of which 25,000 were medieval manuscripts
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TIL Samuel L. Jackson Once Held Martin Luther King Jr.'s Father Hostage During A Campus Protest
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TIL after chemical analysis of the contents of a sealed unguentarium made of dolomite and quartz (found in an intact Roman tomb in 2019), for the first time evidence of a substance in a Roman perfume was found: patchouli