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TIL in Polish Scrabble, Z is only worth 1 point.

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4RbX TIL that after 10 years of consecutive employment every Australian is entitled to 2 months of paid vacation time
Kre6 TIL - Both of Jack Black’s parents were satellite engineers, his mother having worked on/with the Hubble Space Telescope
wLM1E TIL Longest marathon in history: the athlete that took more than half a century to cross the finish line
nW7Ro TIL of the "Green Book" which helped Black Americans know which restaurants, hotels and gas stations would serve them and/or do them no harm between the 1930s-1960s
oBnVK TIL that Finland was the first nation in the world that implemented universal suffrage (in 1906) and allowed all adult citizens to run for office, regardless of sex or race, and thus was the first true democracy in the world. The following year, the first female MPs in world history were elected.