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TIL that the US is on 43rd place on freedom of press

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MR5B TIL that the largest living thing on the face of the Earth is a mushroom underground in Oregon, estimated to cover over 2,200 acres (890 hectares) and be at least 2,400 years old, possibly older.
oBRmo TIL Destiny’s Child and Solange recorded the theme song to the popular Disney Channel show The Proud Family.
E1JPP TIL not many people know about the largest bomb ever detonated. About 15x stronger than the nukes used on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. I'd like to introduce you all to the Tsar Bomba. King of bombs.
8ae4 TIL in 2003, the “Infinite Monkey Theorem” was tested. Six Macaques were left with a working computer keyboard for a month. They produced six pages of mostly the letter “S” and a bashed-in keyboard covered in Macaque urine and feces.
v1NW8 TIL the Turkish Straits crisis was an opening salvo of the Cold War, as the Soviet Union tried to take over two key channels in order to control Black Sea naval traffic. Stalin threatened to invade Turkey from the Balkans, prompting the Truman Doctrine of capitalist aid that put the country in NATO