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TIL the iPhone clock app displays the actual current time

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yQ0Gv TIL that the sound doves make when taking off/landing isn’t from their beak, but rather from their wing tips
neDZ7 TIL that after WWII, a small electronics shop was built in a bomb-damaged department store in Tokyo. The company, Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering Corporation, had only $530 and 8 employees. The company invented Japan's first tape recorder and, in 1958, changed its name to Sony.
mxdAO TIL Jordan Peele decided to make "Us" a full-on horror film due to people being generally confused over the genre of "Get Out".
16O7P TIL that Apple doesn’t allow villains to use iPhones in movies
ORaY TIL that the Governor of Georgia from the early 1930s had two men executed for murder - despite a third man pleading guilty - because, ‘they looked like the criminal type’.