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TIL that Mars has a flag, however it is not official in any legal sense, as the Outer Space Treaty forbids the appropriation of celestial bodies by any means

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gMno7 TIL that Robin Williams had a clause in his will that Disney isn’t allowed to use his voice for 25 years after his death for any sequels for Aladdin
ojL8 TIL that in 1971, on the day before Bangladesh officially won its Liberation War, Pakistani soldiers kidnapped the brightest Bengali intellectuals–writers, philosophers, historians, mathematicians, physicists, poets–and slaughtered them in the middle of the night.
Lk5vP TIL That the London Tower uses ravens to “prevent disaster” and that these birds are technically military members and can be dishonorably discharged!
4Xby5 TIL The term "podcast" was created in 2004 by combining the words "iPod" and "broadcast"
Aa4B TIL people who are uninterested in religious debate about god(s) existence and that any debate is useless are called apatheists