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Y7g7x TIL that Europe moves the clock forwards and backwards during the Summer just like the United States' Daylight Savings Time. It's called European Summer Time. However, the transition is a few weeks apart from when the United States moves their clocks.
A9Jl TIL: Archie and Marvel’s The Punisher actually had a crossover, in which The Punisher chases an drug dealing Archie lookalike into Riverdale. It is also the “prequel” to the Punisher/Batman crossover.
lop5r TIL that JFK had his cabinet staff read "The Guns of August", a book about the start of WWI in August 1914, during the Cuban Missile Crisis in October 1963, saying "I am not going to follow a course which will allow anyone to write a comparable book about this time, "The Missiles of October."
4nVR TIL in 1969, a store manager in Sydney, Australia was arrested by a Vice Squad for displaying a poster image of Michelangelo’s masterpiece David because the statue depicts David nude.
WkN9L TIL The idea for the Red Cross came about in 1859, when a Swiss man, Henry Dunant saw the aftermath of a battle in Italy and witnessed 40,000 men dying with no medical care. 5 years later,12 governments adopted the first Geneva convention; defining medical services as “Neutral” in wartime.