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TIL that the flags of Haiti and Lichtenstein were identical by coincidence. The similarity wasn’t discovered until the two nations competed against each other in the 1936 Olympics.

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AxQl TIL that the phrase “balls to the wall” comes from aviation; ball-shaped handles controlled the throttle and fuel, and putting these handles closer to the wall resulted in the fastest possible speed
Axbd TIL human egg and sperm cells can be created from the skin cells of any two humans, regardless of gender, allowing for reproduction
oB8ZL TIL Terry Davis an american programmer created his own operating system “TempleOS” while diagnosed with schizophrenia and claimed to be the smartest programmer ever to live
mxaAp TIL Neil Douglas boarded a flight & found his doppelgänger/lookalike, Robert Stirling, sitting in his seat. The whole plane laughed & they took a selfie. Douglas arrived at his hotel, only to find the same double at the check-in desk. Their paths crossed again at a bar & they shared a laugh & a pint
VMwX4 TIL that elephants lack a scrotum and their testes are located internally near their kidneys. This fact, along with other embryological and palaeontological evidence, suggests that their ancestors were aquatic.