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TIL the largest difference between the time zones of two countries is 26 hours

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eGOk TIL the captain of the Costa Concordia cruise ship who sank in 2012, stated that he didn’t try to escape but rather “slipped off the ship when it turned over and fell into a lifeboat”.
jEOQ TIL in 2005, an 8-yr old boy’s 14-yr old female babysitter initiated sexual contact with him and the district attorney filed charges against the child boy, not the teenage girl.
Zp9kQ TIL that Joseph Petrosino an NYPD officer, warned President McKinley that there was an assassination plot due to take place against him, in Buffalo New York. McKinley brushed off the warning, and was duly assassinated.
x6485 TIL that in 1996 a man named Blair Adams withdrew most of his money and fled Canada after allegedly telling friends someone was trying to kill him. He was found murdered six days later, in a parking lot 2150 miles away. His murder remains unsolved.
AmMa TIL Adam Rainer is the only person in history to be categorized as both a dwarf and a giant in his lifetime. At age 21 he measured 3 feet 10.5 inches. By age 32 he measured 7 feet 2 inches tall.