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TIL Ben Franklin’s Proposal for Daylight Savings time was originally written as a joke.

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4XLyJ TIL in 2004, an R-rated director's cut of Daredevil was released, reincorporating 30 minutes, including a subplot involving a character played by Coolio, and it received critical acclaim from critics and was considered a massive improvement over the theatrical version
GYnr5 TIL Russia has a monument dedicated to lab rats
p8pGp TIL after the death of the 4th-century BCE Mausolus of Caria (in Anatolia), his wife and sister Artemisia reigned for 2 years. She built the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus (one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World) in his honour, and in her grief is said to have mixed his ashes in her daily drink
OGPvY TIL-Rain can affect your wireless internet connection due to rain fade, which absorbs some of the signal coming from the transmitter because its wavelengths are at a similar frequency to satellite, WiFi, and 4G and 5G signals.
GYPJ TIL aides from the Clinton administration removed all “W” keys from the keyboards in the White House before George W. Bush took over.