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Today i learned that every clock online available for sale has the same time displayed which is 10:10

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78yeL TIL The Pixie Rap from the Fairly Odd Parents Movie "School's Out" was performed by Method Man and Redman
N7Rk6 TIL that in 1859 a 2 hour telegraph conversation between Portland and Boston was able to be had without the use of any battery power. This was due to an aurora borealis generating enough electric current in the telegraph wires.
wLKx6 TIL the word "quack" comes from the Dutch word "quacksalver", and originally referred to doctors and dentists who advocated mercury amalgam fillings. When mercury amalgams were invented in the 1800s most medical professionals rejected their use as too dangerous.
PY4Bg TIL Dixie Land was written by a Unionist, and a favorite song of Abraham Lincoln
epMOg TIL of Rough and Tumble Fighting or "Gouging", a martial art attested from rural southern and frontier areas in the 18th and 19th centuries in which mutilation of the opponent was a basic fighting technique (disturbing description)