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TIL that the National flag of Nepal is the only non-quadrilateral national flag in the world.

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P1G7G TIL Texas USA has high school barbeque teams.
XEZ4r TIL After his moon landing, Neil Armstrong was put in quarantine for several weeks. Scientists were afraid that he may have picked up a foreign bacteria while he was in space. He spent the majority of that quarantine time playing his ukulele.
eMN5 TIL: in 2012 a proposal was made in the Netherlands to create legal, VIRTUAL child pornography to help satisfy pedophiles’ needs and hopefully make them less likely to act out their fantasies.
b9WV0 TIL Viking military tactics succeeded mainly because they disregarded the conventional battlefield tactics, methods, and customs of the time. They ignored unspoken rules, like not attacking holy sites. To the contrary Vikings intentionally targeted religious sites for their vulnerability and wealth.
epER5 TIL the first recorded US College Streaker was a Washington College senior named George William Crump and he ran naked through Lexington in 1804. He was suspended, and went on to become a congressman.