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TIL that New Zealand was founded on May 7, 1856.

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ZpXRv TIL that Theodore Roosevelt became the first American to win a Nobel Prize after he helped broker the end of the Russo-Japanese War.
VNgQ TIL Cuba’s infant mortality rate still among lowest in world. In 2015 Cuba’s infant mortality rate was 4.3 per 1,000 live births–with 535 child deaths out of 125,064 births recorded in the year.
1a8dP TIL actress Robin Strasser's middle name(s) is "Victory in Europe."
XEv9r TIL that Vincent Gallo and Roger Ebert feuded over Ebert's criticism of Gallo's film "The Brown Bunny." Gallo said he hexed Ebert's colon to give him cancer, to which Ebert replied watching his own colonoscopy was more fun than watching Gallo's film.
9wJeG TIL that at atmospheric pressure, Helium cannot freeze, even at Absolute Zero, while Carbon and Arsenic sublimates from solid to gas, with no liquid state.