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

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b96Zj TIL that Saddam Hussein was shown the film "South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut" while on trial for crimes against humanity as a form of torture.
4LX6 TIL That Japan is Re-Arming because of China
xV98w TIL that throughout South London, there are large sections of fence made out of WWII stretchers. These stretchers were used by civil authorities to transport the injured during the Blitz. They are what remain of the 600,000 built for the city during the war.
a07y TIL The episode of the Simpsons where the kids are snowed in the school at Christmas was based on a true story that happened to one of the writers
VM6VB TIL about Ashley's Sack. Ashley, a slave, was sold at nine years old. Her mother provided a cotton sack as a parting gift. Telling her "it be filled with my love always", it contained a tattered dress, a handful of pecans, and a braid of her mother's hair.