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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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b9KV4 TIL a year with 13 months of 28 days with a Year Day and Leap Day was already invented in 1902 and used in Eastman Kodak Company. The new month was named Sol in between June and July.
J1Yej TIL the actor Leslie Baker, known for playing disgruntled paper salesman Stanley Hudson in "The Office," inadvertently prepped for the role by portraying an office worker in OfficeMax commercials while in graduate school.
OoQEe TIL about Larry Walters, who dreamed of flying since he was a child. He was going to join the air force but his poor eyesight disqualified him. On July 2, 1982 he built a homemade airship out of a patio chair and 45 helium balloons and flew for nearly an hour, reaching an altitude of 16,000 feet.
gMmK7 TIL: Jon Brower Minnoch was an American man who, at his peak weight, was the heaviest human being ever recorded, weighing 1,400 lb (635 kilograms; 100 stone). This additionally makes him the largest known primate ever to have lived, exceeding the upper estimated size of Gigantopithecus.
jNvrv TIL the difference between $1million and $1billion. It would take roughly 12 days to give away $1mil if you gave away a dollar each second. For $1billion, this would take roughly 32 years!