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Written by Today I learned on 2025-02-02 at 00:51

TIL that prior to 1880, there was no official time in Great Britain. Cities would often keep their own time, different from neighboring cities. Also, GB was the first nation in the world to adopt a universal time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenwich_Mean_Time

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Written by Today I learned on 2025-02-01 at 22:36

TIL that a 39 mile-long sausage was created in Romania in 2014

https://www.romania-insider.com/romania-sets-new-world-record-for-longest-sausage?amp

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Written by Today I learned on 2025-02-01 at 22:21

TIl That Burma Dictator Ne Win announced the demonetisation of the 25, 35, and 75 kyat notes, leaving only the 1, 5, and 10 kyat bills valid and replaced them with 45 and 90 bills, wiping out 60-80% of legal tender and peoples savings.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ne_Win

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Written by Today I learned on 2025-02-01 at 22:06

TIL that Betty White was the oldest of the four main actresses on The Golden Girls and the last to pass away.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Golden_Girls

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Written by Today I learned on 2025-02-01 at 21:51

TIL that Canada now has higher property and violent crime rates than the United States of America.

https://tnc.news/2024/11/28/canada-higher-crime-rates-than-us/

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Written by Today I learned on 2025-02-01 at 21:36

TIL The St. Johns River is the longest river in Florida, and the longest river in the United States that flows northward

https://gnome.orr.noaa.gov/doc/location_files/st_johns_river_tech.html

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Written by Today I learned on 2025-02-01 at 21:21

TIL 1066 and 1936 were the only years in English history with three different kings, both due to a short reign by the second king. In 1066, Harold II ruled 282 days before dying at Hastings. In 1936, Edward VIII abdicated after 326 days to marry an American divorcée.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_shortest-reigning_monarchs

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Written by Today I learned on 2025-02-01 at 21:06

TIL: "Itasha" which translates to "painful" or "cringeworthy" car is a subculture that originated in Japan which involves wrapping cars in flashy graphics, typically anime girls. In recent years it has been growing in popularity in the US with specialized businesses such as "The Weeb Stop".

https://www.chron.com/culture/article/houston-anime-car-18392345.php

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Written by Today I learned on 2025-02-01 at 20:51

TIL the same voice actor voiced both the character He-Man and Morris the Cat in the 9 Lives cat food commercials.

https://deadline.com/2025/01/john-erwin-dead-1236274489/

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Written by Today I learned on 2025-02-01 at 20:36

TIL Mark Matthews was the oldest living Buffalo Soldier, enlisting in 1910 and retiring in 1949 before becoming a security guard and retiring again in 1970. He died in 2005 at the age of 111.

https://nkaa.uky.edu/nkaa/items/show/886

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Written by Today I learned on 2025-02-01 at 20:21

TIL under suspicion that he might join protests at the republican party convention in 1972, John Lennon was under heavy CIA surveillance. Lennon and his wife were aware they were under surveillance to some degree, but were still shocked once they were informed about the full extent of it

https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP90-00552R000303620003-6.pdf

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Written by Today I learned on 2025-02-01 at 20:06

TIL that the final article of the Greek Constitution says all Greeks "have the right and the duty to resist by all possible means against anyone who attempts the violent abolition of the Constitution."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Article_120_of_the_Greek_Constitution

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Written by Today I learned on 2025-02-01 at 19:51

TIL Surfmen was the terminology used to describe members of the United States Lifesaving Service before it was merged into the US Coast Guard. It is also currently the highest qualification in the Coast Guard for small boat operations.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surfmen

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Written by Today I learned on 2025-02-01 at 19:36

TIL of the spoils system which is a practice in which a political party, after winning an election, gives government jobs to its supporters, friends (cronyism), and relatives (nepotism) as a reward for working toward victory, and as an incentive to keep working for the party.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spoils_system

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Written by Today I learned on 2025-02-01 at 19:21

TIL excessive genital warts is an actual condition

https://www.healthline.com/health/std/genital-warts

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Written by Today I learned on 2025-02-01 at 19:06

TIL The Netherlands had a flood in 1825 similar to the 1953 flood but was soon forgotten and no preventative measures were put in place.

https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_flood_of_1825

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Written by Today I learned on 2025-02-01 at 18:36

TIL about Black Sunday, April 14, 1935, when a massive dust storm hundreds of miles wide and thousands of feet high tore through Oklahoma and Texas. Temperatures dropped 30+ degrees in 2 hours as the storm turned day into night, plunging the Southern Plains into total darkness.

https://www.history.com/news/remembering-black-sunday

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Written by Today I learned on 2025-02-01 at 18:21

TIL that after Superman’s much-publicized 1992 “death”, he returned in 1993’s “Reign of the Supermen” sporting a mullet. The cancelled film Superman Lives would have also featured a mullet-wearing Superman.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mullet_(haircut)

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Written by Today I learned on 2025-02-01 at 18:06

TIL That Samsung started as a grocery store.

https://www.britannica.com/money/Samsung-Electronics

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Written by Today I learned on 2025-02-01 at 17:51

TIL Jefferson Davis attempted to patent a steam-operated propeller invented by his slave, Ben Montgomery. Davis was denied because he was not the "true inventor." As President of the Confederacy, Davis signed a law that permitted the owner to apply to patent the invention of a slave.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Montgomery

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