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TIL According to American flag etiquette worn out flags should be destroyed in a dignified manner, preferably by burning.

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9YGvG TIL the # 1 movie in China right now is ‘Battle at Lake Changjin', which glorifies a U.S. defeat collecting $890 million in ticket sales.
ne6AY TIL that the most expensive movie ever made was Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides. It cost $378.5 million to make.
8eMLb TIL about an expensive brothel in Paris called One-Two-Two with a pirate themed room that was fitted with a bed which mechanically swing like a boat with jets of water drenching the occupants mimicking sex in a leaky boat.
JbDl TIL Kobe beef was not legally exported out of Japan until January of 2012. If you ate Japanese Kobe Beef outside of Japan before this date, you were duped.
Revw TIL: Jesse Owens, winner of four golds in the ‘36 Olympics said, “Hitler didn’t snub me – it was our president who snubbed me. The president didn’t even send me a telegram.”