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Aug 2021
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95. The World’s Strangest Time Zones!: W...

Thomas Wilkinson
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You may not have thought about it before, but time zones are strange. What are time zones and why do we use them? Who decided the world should be loosely split into 24 different regions with 24 different times? Why do some countries and territories decide to change or make their own time zones? Where are the strangest time zones in the world? Let’s try to an ... Show More
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