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TIL that those plastic wall clocks in schools are actually atomic, and the reason they speed ahead when they get messed up is due to a radio signal from NIST called WWVB

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a4PJ TIL That the NYPD takes officers that have committed suicide by gun into their firearm discharge report and thereby increasing the hit ratio.
DnmJ TIL - Bruce Willis once bought 12,000 girl-scout cookies for millitary service members in the middle east
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.
n5QW TIL in South Korea, children under 17 are blocked from playing online games past midnight which is monitored by their KSSN (Korean Social Security Number).
K4Q6 TIL colonists in Jamestown resorted to eating a 14 year old girl during a particularly harsh winter known as the “Starving Time.”