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TIL that New Zealand is the freest country in the world (2020) with the US placed 17th.

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mAAM TIL that Willie Nelson has been playing the same guitar, Trigger, since 1969. He’s even worn a giant hole in it.
81VP TIL the smallest muscle in your body, found in the middle ear, dampens the sound of your own voice when you speak. Recordings of your voice sound odd because the stapedius muscle isn’t functioning then.
AN77l TIL of the "German Tank Problem", a statistics theory that came from the Allies in WW2 attempting the estimate German tank production based on the sequential serial numbers of captured/destroyed German tanks.
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