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TIL Boris Yeltsin signed a presidential decree in 1996 that gave the old Soviet flag similar status as the Russian national flag and it is still flown on certain holidays

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6Ebdm TIL: Sir James Brooke was a British soldier and adventurer, who founded the Raj of Sarawak in Borneo. Acquiring the title, "Sultanate of Sarawak" - following intervention in an uprising against the Sultan of Brunei. He ruled as the first White Rajah of Sarawak from 1841, until his death in 1868.
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