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TIL China only has one time zone

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R54Nj TIL in 1967 a man named Thomas Jolley fled the US to Canada and renounced his citizenship to avoid being drafted in the Vietnam War. A few months later he returned to the US and was ordered deported, but Canada refused to accept him back. He spent the rest of his life in the US as an illegal alien.
0d6Bj TIL there is an abandoned 3.5km (2.2 mi) underground airbase in Croatia, the largest military project of the former Yugoslavia.
kDgE TIL there’s a Hell, Michigan; when asked what the town should be called, the founder said “Call it Hell for all I care!”
78r8b TIL the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has a whole handbook on allowable defect limits for various foods, such as 400 insect fragments being allowed per 50 grams of ground cinnamon and 4.5 rodent hairs being allowed per 225 grams of noodles.
Eg440 TIL that Steven Adams of the Memphis Grizzlies NBA team is the youngest of EIGHTEEN children - many of which are also champion athletes.