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TIL that flags are flown at half mast when someone important dies to allow “the invisible flag of death” to fly at the top of the mast, signifying death’s prescence, power, and prominence

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K1eQ TIL Nestle pays only $2.25 to bottle and sell a million liters of water
78eJL TIL there is a "healing" spring in South Carolina which is officially listed as being owned by God. Previous property owner L.P. Boylston, who died in 1944, left the property to "Almighty God" in his will so that the water would always be freely available to drink. It is now known as God's Acre.
WXY4 TIL that in 2003 a Boeing 727 was stolen from an Angolan airport. It took off without clearance and flew out over the Atlantic with its lights and transponder switched off – and was never seen again
OoPMa TIL the invention of the vibrator preceded the vacuum cleaner and electric iron by a decade, after doctors grew tired of having to manually climax the ‘hysteria’ out of women.
noEY TIL that in 2004, a F-16 accidentally strafed a New Jersey school with cannon fire on a training mission.