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TIL the Bulgarian flag has never been captured in battle

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loyMa TIL many countries won't allow you to donate blood if you lived in the UK for more than six months between 1980-1996. This is because of concerns around blood-borne transmission of BSE/vCJD, colloquially referred to as Mad Cow Disease.
5YB7R TIL Buganda's Indigenous religion has a saying for when they pray to their gods for help “Lubaale mbeera, nga n'embiro kw'otadde" (pray for deliverance from danger, but start running too).
OGywL TIL that Nissan cars when shown in advertisements often have the number 23, because in Japanese, two is "ni" and three is "san."
6oRm TIL The most accurate depiction of a black hole ever created was for the movie “Interstellar”. “It’s the product of a year of work by 30 people and thousands of computers.”
OxGa TIL the Richter scale is an exponential scale which uses powers of 10. Meaning an earthquake measuring 9 on the Richter scale 1,000 times stronger than one measuring 6.