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TIL subway isn’t legally allowed to call its bread “bread” in Ireland. They consider it “cake”

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LkwkQ TIL India has used 3 time zones in the past - Bombay, Madras and Calcutta, with Madras time zone (being in between the other two) used by the railways all around the country. Neither of them had the arbitrary UTC+X(.5) time offset. The present day IST is closest to the Madras time.
D1eNp Today I Learned John Wayne likely died from cancer caused by radiation poisoning. 90 other cast and crew also developed cancers after shooting The Conqueror downwind from recent US government nuclear weapons tests.
VrBp TIL 36% of Americans said that they screamed, yelled, cursed, or physically assaulted their computers in the last 6 months
kOyKm TIL in 1944, George Orwell's first draft of Animal Farm was almost destroyed in a German V-1 rocket attack. He luckily found the manuscript in the rubble of his house.
Lk1pQ TIL that the two of the US pilots who were able to take off during the attack on Pearl Harbor and down 7 enemy aircraft in the process were denied the Medal of Honor because their commanding officer said they had "taken off without orders".