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TIL a Saudi man was arrested for unknowingly buying and flying the LGBT flag. The man's child saw the flag online and thought it was pretty. The doctor (having never seen an LGBT flag) bought one and flew it over his house. Only after religious police arrested him did he learn what it represented.

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