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TIL that Puerto Rican and Cuban flags are intentionally similar. The PR flag is an intentionally inverted-color version of Cuban flag.

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m1JLE TIL that the term "OK" originated during the 1830s as a humorous abbreviation of "oll korrect," which was a misspelling of "all correct.
4ooo TIL In the Bible, The New Testament mentions that from Heaven will descend an enormous city named New Jerusalem made of “pure gold, like clear glass” and gives its specific dimensions, 1.9 million square miles. If rested on the Earth, its ceiling would be inside the exosphere.
woKgJ TIL The Washington DC license plate includes the slogan "End Taxation Without Representation"
Rl7Q TIL that hours after the JFK Assassination, newly sworn in Lyndon Johnson was almost shot and killed by a Secret Service agent.
nWKab TIL Torquemada, a Spanish friar, influenced the 1492 Alhambra Decree, expelling 200,000 Jews from Spain for not converting to Christianity. He created the Inquisition’s framework for trials, property seizures, and oversaw thousands of executions for heresy. Ironically, his family had Jewish roots.