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TIL British Flag, the Union Flag is not entirely symmetrical and can be put wrong way up

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4ge5 TIL there is a “zip bomb” that is only 42 kilobytes when zipped, but is 4.5 Petabytes uncompressed.
KKja TIL The Gympie Gympie shrub has a toxin so potent that it can cause stinging for days, months and even years. There is one report of a man who used the leaf for ‘toilet purposes’ shooting himself due to the unbearable pain.
R7a4Q Today I learned that in Japanese, there is a phrase bushu-suru (ブッシュする). In literal terms, this means "to do the bush thing," in reference to a bizarre 1992 incident where George HW Bush fell ill and vomited directly onto the Japanese prime minister.
g58X TIL a German man broke into prison every night to visit his girlfriend
oRYd8 TIL that the 2015 Broadway musical Hamilton was not the first Broadway play titled "Hamilton" that depicted the life of Alexander Hamilton. The first Hamilton wasn't a musical, though, and it was released in 1915. The 1915 play was adapted into a film released in 1931