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TIL That the modern display of the confederate flag is not what was flown by the majority of soldiers of the Confederate States of America, but is the battle flag of the army of Northern Virginia.

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rRAXw TIL that pandas in captivity lose interest in mating - so they are shown videos of other pandas having sex to encourage them to mate.
bAr4 TIL A volcanic eruption in Indonisia in 1815 temporarily altered the Earth’s climate resulting in many parts of the US Northeast accumulating 6 inches of snow from June 6th-7th the following year
PYrke TIL In 1941, the NKVD (precursor to the KGB) executed around 100,000 people in the space of 5 months.
L9Gm TIL that because of Delaware, corporate transparency is essentially a joke in the US. Delaware gets a huge portion of the state budget from incorporations while asking little about the identity of the true owner which attracts major money laundering criminals from all over the world.
0wQ8L TIL a 2008 poll of corporate users showed that only 8% of them were "very satisfied" with Windows Vista, while 40% were "very satisfied" with Windows XP.