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TIL that the red shapes in the Frisian Flag are actually water-lily leaves

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dxXZ TIL that the phrase “You’ve got guts” originated from the American Civil War era during which over 211,000 soldiers were diagnosed with chronic diarrhea. Because of its frequency, the expression arose that a man “had to have good guts to be a good soldier.”
4krgo TIL the first animals to receive formal scientific names were spiders. Carl Alexander Clerck published 'Svenska Spindlar' (Swedish Spiders) in 1757, becoming the first person to consistently apply Linnaean binomial nomenclature to animals.
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