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Today I learned that the US is currently ranked 46 in the press freedom index.

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N7nOP TIL the word Turquoise actually comes from the French "turquois" meaning "Turkish", as the stones were traditionally imported from Turkey.
MEWm TIL that while attending Oxford, J.R.R. Tolkien once stole a city bus and took his friends on a joy ride.
ZpwB4 TIL my fingernails grow at roughly the same rate that our continents move
WkmjX TIL About an experiment done between 1929-1935 that found that students only needed 1 year of Math in Grade 6 to perform just as well as other students that had been doing Math lessons for 6 years.
VB1LZ TIL Voltaire became extremely rich by taking advantage of a weakness in the French lottery system. In 1729, he collaborated with mathematician Charles Marie de La Condamine and others to make use of a profitable opportunity in the French national lottery.