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TIL: Tennessee makes community college free for all adults

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7rBPx TIL that in 2019, singer Mike Posner announced he would walk completely across the United States. On August 7, his walk was delayed a few weeks after he was bitten by a rattlesnake in Colorado and airlifted to a local hospital. He finished his walk across America on October 18, 2019.
g8y4 TIL that Kim Jong Il was the largest customer of Hennessey in the world, spending over $650,000 a year on it
YpmPx TIL Stan Lee enlisted in the military after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Lee served during World War 2 in the Army Signal Corps from 1942 to 1944, first as a lineman before being moved to technical writing once the Army realized Lee’s writing skills.
W74XA TIL in 2023, Zimbabwe signed control over almost 20% of the country's land to Blue Carbon, an Emirati company, for $1.5 billion. The company seeks to conserve forests that might otherwise be logged.
epWmg TIL that San Marino has won three Olympic medals, all won at the 2020 Tokyo games. With 33,600 people, it is the smallest country by population to have won an Olympic medal.