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TIL: one of the proper ways to dispose a US flag is to burn it

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Q78M TIL Disney’s film “Song of the South” (based on the “Uncle Remus” books and famous for its “Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah” song) has never been released in its entirety on home video in the United States due to its offensive racial stereotypes and benign portrayal of ex-slaves and their former masters.
QNBWd TIL about Thomas Grasso, a murderer who was executed in 1995. He requested 24 mussels, 24 clams, a cheeseburger, 6 ribs, 2 milkshakes, a pie, strawberries and a can of SpaghettiOs as a last meal. His last words were "I did not get my SpaghettiOs, I got spaghetti. I want the press to know this."
GYvGN TIL there were two economic recessions called 'The Great Depression' the more famous one being in 1929 and the other one happening 56 years earlier now referred to as 'The Long Depression'
P7QG TIL The courts in New Zealand allowed a child to be named ‘Number 16 Bus Shelter’
WQjB TIL when Gangnam Style went viral, the stock Psy’s family was involved with made his father $11m and his brother $17m.