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4PMR TIL of Rhythm 0, a six-hour work by performance artist Marina Abramović. The audience was invited to do whatever they wished to and/or with the artist, using one of 72 objects she had placed on a table for this purpose including a rose, feather, scalpel, metal bar, and a gun loaded with one bullet.
xVv8k TIL there is a single official object that defines the mass of a kilogram. A tiny, 139-year-old cylinder of platinum and iridium that resides in a triple-locked vault near Paris
8a0oa TIL the only places in the United States where you can buy alcohol at 18 instead of 21 are Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands
KMw4 TIL that France has labor laws giving all employees 5 weeks of vacation time, Luxembourg: 25 days, Germany: 4 weeks, Croatia: 20 days, Venezuela: 15 days, Puerto Rico: 15 days, Saudi Arabia: 21 days, China: 5 days. The only country listed with 0 days: The United States
0dJBR TIL about Terence Tao, a prodigious mathematician often dubbed the 'Mozart of Mathematics' and considered the greatest living mathematician. Tao, who boasts a 230 IQ, began university-level math at age 9 and has won the prestigious Fields Medal