AWESOME FACTS ABOUT EVERYTHING CXLV

1. Geographically, China spans five time zones. But in 1949, in a symbolic move to unify the country, the Communist party "eliminated" the five zones in favor of "Beijing time" which is still the single time zone in China.

2. Lemurs live in Madagascar and nowhere else on earth. The world's oldest living primates, scientists think lemur ancestors floated across the ocean on islands of vegetation when Madagascar separated from Africa some 70 million years ago. 

3. The Mason-Dixon Line is an eponymous demarcation line separating four U.S. states - Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware, and West Virginia. It was originally drawn by surveyors Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon between 1763-1767 to settle a border dispute between the British colonies of Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Delaware. It was regarded as the symbolic dividing line between the free and slave states before the  Civil War, and may also be the origin of the word "Dixie" for the South.

4. Joining Kleenex, Levi's, and Zipper,  Q-TIP has become generic for any cotton swab.

5. The Mandela Effect is a social phenomenon in which a large number of people believe something that is not true or did not happen - a collective false memory.