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TIL that the US ranks 47th in the world in Freedom of Press

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ZPrB TIL a Scottish University discovered a drug which combats leukaemia… in the nation’s favourite drink - Irn Bru.
9x07 TIL that Mickey and Minnie Mouse’s voice actors were married in real life.
dK0K TIL that “Ugly Laws” in the US banned many disabled people from appearing in public until the 1970s.
VoDD TIL at a memorial service for Asimov Kurt Vonnegut said about the famous atheist: “Isaac is up in Heaven now.” because “That was the funniest thing I could have said to an audience of humanists.” He got roaring laughter.
v11L8 TIL the Fuegian dog, was a domesticated culpeo, a native fox to South America that resembles a red fox, by the indigenous Yaghan peoples. They were exterminated by white settlers for being dangerous to the settler's goats.