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6MA7 TIL that the French Navy uses distorted proportions of 30:33:37 on the Flag to give better optical proportions
Jxnm TIL the Queen’s coronation dress had emblems of an English Tudor rose, a Scots thistle, a Welsh leek, an Irish shamrock, an Australian wattle, a Canadian maple leaf, a New Zealand fern, South Africa’s protea, an Indian pearly lotus, an Ceylonese opalescent lotus and Pakistan’s wheat, cotton and jute
0wB6p TIL About James Hogue, an American conman who posed as a self-taught orphan and was admitted into Princeton University, where he participated in the track and eating clubs. His con was exposed, after a former classmate at Palo Alto High School recognized him, where he had previously posed as a teen.
kOldm TIL there are only six full-time 'skywriters' left in the world. Skywriters are those who use aircraft to expel special smoke during flight in patterns.
167bO TIL in 1949, eight observers documented every word and movement of a seven-year-old boy from rural Kansas for a sociological study