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TIL on Memorial day, the US Flag should be flown at half mast from dawn to noon only. From noon to dusk it should be flown at full.

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7KDb TIL Jerry Seinfeld dated a 17-year-old girl when he was 39 years old.
dXPd TIL that Saudi Arabia has a women’s only university with 52,000 students and its own rail system.
xnWD TIL: When clasped by a predator, the spiny mouse is able to shed its skin, sometimes losing up to 60 percent of it’s skin in a single slough to escape. It can then regrow it over the course of a few days. It is the only known mammal to practice Autotomy, or self amputation.
QJl9M TIL That there are more people who have learned English as a second language than there are native English speakers, and that English is the most commonly learned second language.
Nnde TIL that the Bayanzi tribe of the Congo would execute via decapitation with a twist. While alive, the head of the condemned would be connected to a springy sapling so that when it was cut off, it would be thrown through the air “With the force of a bomb”.