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Til that Sam Kinnison was training Jim Carrey to go on the road with him as a Pentecostal preacher.

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4kxog TIL that the time in China follows a single standard time offset of UTC+08:00, where Beijing is located, even though the country spans five geographical time zones and it’s the largest sovereign nation in the world that officially observes only one time zone.
e0aJE TIL about the attempt to colonize Panama by Scotland in 1698. An utter failure, 20% of the wealth of Scotland was lost in addition to the deaths of thousands of colonists.
e0Kdb TIL the Cryptex, the cylindrical combination vaults that hold secret messages, made famous in The Da Vinci Code, is a neologism completely invented by Dan Brown and has no historical connection to a real device of the sort.
XBNQ TIL there’s a sequel to Fight Club, writer Chuck Palahniuk published it in Graphic Novel format - the story takes place 10 years after after the events of the book/film and is told from the restrained perspective of Tyler Durden as he sits in the subconscious of the narrator.
NXOpE TIL of the Moro Crater Massacre in The Phillipines, which included the murder of hundreds of women and children by US forces. Photos were taken at the scene where the soldiers smiled as skulls, rotting severed limbs, blown-out heads and dismembered torsos were piled up around them.