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TIL in the US west of Washington DC there’s a National Radio Quiet Zone - 13,000 square miles (34,000 sq km) of radio silence where cellphones are banned

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rN9p1 TIL about the Suffragette bombing and arson campaign
wLe9M TIL about a variant of chess called Dunsany's, or Horde chess in which one player's pieces are set up identical to regular chess, while the other player starts with a horde of 32 pawns.
6mJ8 TIL that Guyana is the only South American country that isn’t part of Latin America because it’s official language is not Spanish, French or Portuguese.
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