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TIL the Finnish Air Force Academy still uses a swastika on its flag, as this kind of cross was used by the Sami shamans in pre-Christian Finland in relation with Horagalles, the Thunder God

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yVKPa TIL the Wright Brothers were perpetual bachelors, and that Orville Wright disowned their sister Katherine after she married and had a family of her own, feeling he had been "betrayed".
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k6m5 TIL that when meeting with Pele, Ronald Reagan said “My name is Ronald Reagan, I’m the President of the United States of America. But you don’t need to introduce yourself, because everyone knows who Pele is.”
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