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TIL North Korea is only the second least free country in the world - it’s beaten by Eritrea, where forced, indefinite and practically unpaid “national service” has been compared to modern slavery.

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9e8m TIL Helen Keller was a radical socialist. After she expressed her socialist beliefs, news columnists who had once praised her then dismissed her stances based on her disabilities.
YpLJv TIL An IKEA in The Netherlands had to cancel their 1 euro breakfast special because of the traffic jams of customers it caused.
n09B TIL In NYC there is a pizza sized plot of land sitting in the middle of a sidewalk. As a result of a surveying error, it was left as part of an estate. The heirs refused to donate the plot of land to NYC, instead putting a mosaic on the plot in 1922. The mosaic is still there, surrounded by sidewalk
BpaL TIL that at the end of WWII, Canada had the 4th largest air force and 3rd largest navy
DQ7yv TIL goats have "accents"