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TIL that the French waved the white flag as a symbol of military command.

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GAAlg TIL about the Lady Juliana (1777 ship), a ship chartered to transport a load of all-female prisoners to Australia, which quickly developed a reputation as a floating brothel: "when we were fairly out to sea, every man on board took a wife from among the convicts, they nothing loath."
o5yR TIL the Justice Department and FBI have formally acknowledged that nearly every examiner in an elite FBI forensic unit gave flawed testimony in almost all trials in which they offered evidence against criminal defendants over more than a two-decade period before the year 2000.
GLkG TIL John Matuszak known as Sloth from “The Goonies” was a #1 Overall Pick in the NFL Draft and won 2 Super Bowls with the Oakland Raiders.
Jk94 TIL there is a flower often used as a food dye in Southeast Asian cuisine called “Clitoria”–named because it resembles a woman’s sexual organs
Kwjw TIL that Kurt Vonnegut was once employed by Sports Illustrated and tasked with writing a story about a racehorse who jumped over a fence to try to run away. He wrote “The horse jumped over the fucking fence” and left the job.