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TIL that the triangle seen from the Flag of the Philippines is derived from masonic symbolism, as many early leaders of Filipino independence from Spain were themselves Freemasons

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N71d8 TIL that World War II WASP pilot Katherine Dussaq married the inventor of the polygraph machine and was herself a renowned forensics expert who ran an all-women detective agency. Katherine died in a service-related crash in November of 1944, only weeks away from the disbanding of the WASP.
WKoA TIL That Nordic folklore has a Christmas character called “Perchta the Disemboweller”, who would either give you coins for being good or would slit your belly open and fill it with oats and straw if you had been bad.
b9PrQ TIL that the ridge going down my scrotum is due to the fact that I used to have a vagina. Apparently men initially develop as girls and once the body decides it's a dude, the labia fuses together into a ball sack and the clitoris becomes the tip of the penis, thus forever changing how I view my junk
MRnV TIL the model for Uncle Sam on the famous 1917 post “I want you” is the face of the painter, James Montgomery Flagg. For effect he aged his own portrait and added the goatee beard. Flagg used his own picture in order to avoid the need to find a model.
YKQA TIL that in 1900, the anarchist Marius Jacob organized a band of thieves with three rules: no killing, except to preserve life or freedom, steal only from social parasites, and invest a percentage of the stolen money into the anarchist cause.