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TIL that the American flag on the Moon was knocked over by the exhaust from the return rocket

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JYbBk TIL France once bought 2,000 trains that were too wide to fit in many platforms in the country. The government has to spend millions of euros to widen many platforms in order to allow the trains to fit.
5YOQr TIL when F. Scott. Fitzgerald's wife, Zelda, accused him of being homosexual with Ernest Hemmingway, Fitzgerald went and slept with a prostitute to show Zelda how straight he really was.
pYYAQ TIL we raise our right hand when we are sworn-in because convicts who previously recieved leniency from the court were branded on their hands so that they wouldn't receive it again
9YlaM TIL Hawaii is the only US state to both never record a high temperature of 100 degrees F or more and the only state to never record a low temperature less than 0 degrees F
6DBX TIL In the summer of 1943 an early copy of the plans for D-Day blew out of a window in Norfolk House, London. A man who was passing by handed them in, saying his sight was too bad to read them.