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TIL Greenland has four distinct Time Zones that cross its boundaries but the country is broken up into UTC0, UTC-1, UTC-3 and UTC-4. UTC-2 is only used during daylight savings. UTC0 is outside the country but the weather station Danmarkshavn, is set to European time for ease of reporting.

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56Wk TIL “flushable wipes” should not be flushed down the toilet
D4KV TIL the original constitution of Oregon had a “whites only” clause. All slaves were freed and then all black people were ordered to leave the state.
xkjb TIL in ancient China, an enemy held the Emperor’s father hostage, threatening to boil him alive … his response was “Send me a cup of the soup.”
Z8JmQ TIL about the loneliest man in the world - an uncontacted tribesman in Brazil who is the only remaining member of his tribe - dubbed the "Tanaru Isolated Indian". Remaining members of the tribe were massacred or wiped out by disease.
O8Z1 TIL that US forces in Afghanistan dropped small, yellow cluster bombs which (if they didn’t detonate on impact) were easily mistaken for the small, yellow food rations they also dropped.