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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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loDrA TIL there are portions of the oceans that are essentially deserts if you only look at the amount of rainfall they receive.
nEAd TIL the first episode of Homestar Runner was animated using Mario Paint for SNES.
KOEOE TIL that Charles Darwin ate every animal he ever discovered
VMjrQ TIL of Alcor Life, A company which freezes human bodies in 500 below 0 temperature chambers so they can be revived in the future. They currently have 1,731 people under Cryo chambers
nWJgY TIL that Xerox scanners sometimes used to randomly substitute digits in scanned documents, e.g. turning 6s into 8s. The issue was discovered and fixed in 2013 but old scanners might still be affected.