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TIL the flag of Nazi Germany was completely designed by Adolf Hitler himself.

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x6N75 TIL after William Jennings Bryan finished his Cross of Gold speech, the audience was completely silent. Bryan said that it was "really painful" and that he thought he had failed, but when he returned to his seat the entire audience went into pandemonium and it took 25 minutes to restore order.
oaVR TIL that there is an ongoing project to build a 40-story tall, 3D-printed globe big enough to feature every manmade and natural feature larger than 30 ft. on the surface of the model.
wpPE TIL Thomas Edison invented the Electric Pen to copy office documents, which was a commercial Flop. 15 years later Samuel O'Reilly discovered that Edison’s machine could be modified and used to introduce ink into the skin, and later patented a tube and needle system to provide an ink reservoir.
Z8oPo TIL That One of the names for Storms this Year is "Nana"
ANNJn TIL of a fossil known as “Fighting Dinosaurs”. Preserved remains of a Protoceratops and a Velociraptor trapped in combat.