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TIL that despite being only 100 miles from each other, Somoa and American Somoa will enter the new decade 25 hours apart. Residents can take a 30 minute flight back into 2019 and celebrate the New Year again more than a day later.

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YrKx TIL Queen Elizabeth and her husband Prince Phillip are 3rd cousins, 2nd cousins and are the great-great grandkinds of Queen Victoria. Because of this, Phillip himself is in the line of succession to the throne though about 490 people would have to die for him to become King in his own right
a6AJ TIL WD-40 is not patented, to avoid disclosing its full ingredients, making it harder to copy.
jpv TIL NASA is landing a vehicle the size of a car on Mars in August. You can see a live update of its location in the solar system here at any time.
D11Lp TIL of the "Just Missed it Club," a group of people who, for one reason or another did not sail on the Titanic. One of these members was Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, son of the late shipping and railroad mogul Cornelius Vanderbilt. He died in the Lusitania disaster 3 years later.
oBXbY TIL Jeffrey Dahmer killed and ate his 17 victims in a one-bedroom apartment, with neighbors barely noticing anything besides the occasional smell of rotting meat in the hallway.