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TIL That they use GMT as the timezone on the International Space Station.

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OoZEX TIL when King George V was near death in 1936, his doctor injected him with, "750mg of morphine and a gram of cocaine – enough to kill him twice over – in order to ease [his] suffering, and to have him expire in time for the printing presses of the Times, which rolled at midnight."
W7wKo TIL in 1995, a US chat show had guests meeting their secret admirer. But didn't tell them their admirer was the of the same gender. One guest was so upset to learn another man had a crush on him, he murdered him 3 day later.
KxM4 TIL the Navy’s stealth destroyer, the USS Zumwalt, can’t fire its guns because the ammo is too expensive
QG1X TIL of the Silphium plant. Used by the ancient Romans to induce abortions it was over-harvested to extinction in the 2nd or 3rd century BCE.
rR1N4 TIL that Keanu Reeves runs a cancer foundation to fund Children's hospitals