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TIL the iPhone clock app displays the actual current time

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MGeb TIL the Scotts company used to include clover in their lawn mix as a natural fertilizer. When their new herbicide killed the clover, they reclassified it as a weed.
GYPA5 TIL A SYNANAGRAM is a word whose letters can be rearranged to form a different word with the same meaning—like ‘angered’ and ‘enraged’. ‘Twelve plus one’ is an anagram of ‘eleven plus two.’ and both add up to 13!
7rNer TIL The late famous Swedish DJ Tim Bergling's stage name Avicii "means the lowest level of hell, it's just cool," Avicii told USA TODAY back in 2012. Indeed, in Buddhism, Avīci is a hell where dead who have sinned will, after enduring punishment, be reborn. Rest in peace Tim.
b6nJ4 TIL about “paper streets” that exist on maps, but were either planned and not constructed, or can be deliberately included in published maps as trap streets, forming a copyright trap.
XEjEX TIL Godman is a colloquial term used in India for a type of charismatic guru that is often raised to a demigod-like figure by their cult following, high-profile presence, ability to attract attention and support from millions, and paranormal powers to heal, to predict, to influence, and read minds.