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TIL about "Delay-Interval Delivery" where twins are delivered up to weeks apart to help increase survival chances of both babies.

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vGw4 TIL That African Time is a real thing. Instead of being a Time Zone, it is a perceived cultural tendency, in most parts of Africa, toward a more relaxed attitude to time.
vPjXj TIL: Keep Calm and Carry On was the third of three posters designed by the UK's Ministry of Information in April 1939. Nearly 2.5 million copies were printed in the weeks before WWII, but almost all were subsequently pulped when public response to the first two posters was overwhelmingly negative.
gML1y TIL that the Yamaha logo is actually 3 tuning forks
e8o6 TIL that before the final British soldiers left Manhattan in 1783, one final act of defiance was the nailing of the Union Jack flag to the top of a flagpole and greasing the pole
N76xJ TIL that before the Nintendo GameCube was released, one of the codenames for it were “Dolphin”