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TIL there is country that ranks lower than North Korea in the Press Freedom Index, which measures how much freedom journalists have. Eritrea surpassed North Korea as the bottom spot in 2007 and has held it since.

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05yR TIL Robin Williams was agreed to be paid $75,000 for voicing the Genie in Aladin, which went on to gross over $200 million domestically. Disney later sent him a late Picasso painting (estimated at the time to be worth $1 million) as a way of thanking him for his work.
0wZ05 TIL that almost a month after the Titanic sank, a lifeboat from it containing three decomposed bodies was found 200 miles away
pjWb TIL that Teddy Roosevelt was so bored as VP of the United States that he seriously considered finishing law school while serving.
m6GR TIL that Mark Twain disliked Jane Austen’s work enough to say “every time I read ‘Pride and Prejudice’ I want to dig her up and beat her over the skull with her own shin-bone”
R5pK7 TIL in his old age Marlon Brando spent hours in AOL chatrooms having political arguments with strangers. His account was often banned for telling people to "fuck off".