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TIL the Hawaiian state flag looks like both the US and UK flag because King Kamehameha wanted it to appeal to both sides during the War of 1812

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Y7nA TIL Quentin Tarantino let The Man with the Iron Fist use his name purely for advertisement purposes even though he has almost nothing to do with the actual film
QJ19M TIL that the Yaghan people of Tierra del Fuego had a unique, now-extinct breed of "dog" that was domesticated from a fox-like South American canid called the culpeo
PjG TIL that mammals have a reflex to reduce the intensity of loud noises. It’s possible to exploit this by simply humming or speaking. Loud noises don’t just sound less intense, less sound is actually transmitted to the inner ear and then to the brain.
X0pgX TIL That Terry Pratchett changed German publishers because Heyne inserted a soup advert into the text of one of his novels and wouldn't promise not to do it again.
76or TIL Stockholm, Sweden up until 1952 had a massive telephone tower with approx. 5500 telephone lines connected to it