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TIL During the Battle of Gettysburg Minnesota soldiers captured a Virginia battle flag and returned it to MN. Virginia has continuously asked for it back, prompting then MN Gov. Jesse Ventura to say “Why? I mean, we won. … That makes it our heritage.”

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166kX TIL The largest city by area in the U.S. is Sitka, Alaska (population: 8,458) which stretches over 4,815 square miles, almost four times bigger than the state of Rhode Island
1lmW TIL that since some early spellcheckers didn’t have the word “cooperation” without the hyphen, there are various documents online from NATO, the EU, the UN, and other international orgs that use the word Cupertino instead. “The Cupertino with our Italian comrades proved to be very fruitful”
E4Eo TIL in 1997, Sir Patrick Stewart put on and starred in a “photo-negative” production of Othello. He starred as a white Othello opposite a black cast. It was the first time this concept was used.
Lk6dV TIL hemp can be used to make paper, cloth, fuel, oils, medicine, plastic, rope, etc. and only takes one acre compared to 4.1 acres of trees to make the same amount of paper, and is even more environmentally friendly, but was made illegal due to the confusion that it can get you high (it doesn’t)
VBmb0 TIL Chairman of China Deng Xiaoping died in 1997, 2 years after the release of the infamous Super Famicom game Hong Kong 97 which he's the main antagonist of, meaning this dogpile of a game predicted the chairman's death somehow