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TIL The American flag was designed by a high school student !

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e0Gwg TIL of the 1980 book "Michelle Remembers", which sold millions of copies and spurred the Satanic panic of that era. Oprah even had the two authors on her show and presented their accounts of satanic abuse as pure fact. The book was later discredited.
VMoo4 TIL in 2011 George Takei unilaterally declared peace between Star Wars and Star Trek fans, and asked them both to declare war on Twilight
rNkRy TIL: The ‘Disney Day Drinkers Club’ Is A Real Thing. People go to Disney World not for the rides and attractions, but just to get drunk.
wL8YW TIL that the Netherlands can be flooded as a military defense.
KOkJ4 TIL about Operation Sea-Spray, where in September 1950 a U.S. Navy ship spent a week spraying bacteria into the air about two miles off the northern California coast. The secret project's goal was to determine the susceptibility of a big city like San Francisco to a bioweapon attack.