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TIL France is the country with the most time zones

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nWwgG TIL that JFK and Garfield were the only two US presidents to end their terms under the age of 50. Both were assassinated.
kOeY7 TIL the show EastEnders is so popular in Britain, they occasionally have to borrow power from France because so many people wait to put the kettle on for tea until after the show ends. (Estimated 1.5-1.75 million kettles)
pxX8 TIL that on 23 August 1989, around 2 million people joined hands in a human chain that stretched 600 kilometres across the 3 Baltic countries, Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia. They did this to protest their countries forced inclusion in the Soviet Union.
pY46A TIL the American state of New Mexico was named before the independent country of Mexico
nenmB TIL In 1999, NASA lost a $125 million Mars orbiter because half the project staff used imperial measurements and the other half used metric.