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TIL The state bird of Utah is the seagull or more specifically, the California Gull

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OGZYY TIL that at the North Pole there is no local time since all lines of longitude, and thus all time zones, converge there. The sun rises, and sets only once per year, meaning that the sun's position could also not be used to synchronise time.
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