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TIL Arizona and Hawaii don't observe daylight savings time.
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TIL Before natural gas distribution became common, houses had pipelines for coal-derived "town gas" to use for heating and cooking.
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TIL about a freediver called Herbert Nitsch which has dived to a depth of 214 meters , gaining the title of ''the deepest man on earth''.
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TIL that the Dwarves in the Tolkien universe are supposed to represent Jewish people. Tolkien stated:“The Dwarves of course are quite obviously—wouldn’t you say that in many ways they remind you of the Jews? Their words are Semitic obviously, constructed to be Semitic.”
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TIL that trees in the red forest, a forest in the Chernobyl exclusion zone, are not decaying because organisms that recycle organic matter suffer from radiation as well.
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TIL The wrestling mask was first introduced at a World's Fair in 1865 by Theobaud Bauer, who appeared as The Masked Wrestler. It started being a regular thing in 1915 when Mort Henderson wrestled as Masked Marvel.