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TIL That a gin pennant (sometimes gin flag or drinking pennant) is a maritime flag. When flown aboard ship, it indicates an open invitation to other ships' officers to come aboard for drinks.

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R7Xa1 TIL that, due to a dispute over Missouri's statehood, Congress recorded two separate electoral votes in the 1820 presidential election, one counting Missouri's electoral votes and one without it, making them simultaneously existent and nonexistent.
Eg0BW TIL you can trademark smells, e.g, Crayola Crayons have a registered scent mark, described as “a unique scent of pungent, aldehydic fragrance combined with the faint scent of hydrocarbon wax and an earthy clay”.
oRwQA TIL Indian wrestler Yogeshwar Dutt refused an Olympic silver upgrade after the original medalist tested positive posthumously, wishing the late athlete's family to keep the medal out of respect.
jNg4a TIL war criminals convicted in the Hague don't actually serve their sentences there
rR89M TIL that Metallica and a couple other rock bands played to 1.6Mil people in Moscow in 1991