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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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gA94 TIL a German air traffic controller was upset at a British pilot and asked him rudely if he had never been to Frankfurt before. The British pilot replied “Yes, twice in 1944, but it was dark…and I didn’t land.”
d8XAQ TIL about Vasili Arkhipov, a Soviet Naval officer who refused to launch a nuclear torpedo during the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, averting all-out nuclear war with the United States
5YXEp TIL Torre Mayor, Mexico City, is one of the strongest buildings on Earth, being designed to withstand earthquakes measuring 8.5 on the Richter Scale. Occupants inside at the time of the 2003 earthquake did not know that a 7.6 tremor had occurred
dDmKK TIL that in the first English release of the Game Boy Advance game Tales of Phantasia, the translators accidentally referred to the end of the world as "Kangaroo" instead of "Ragnarok"
b6p1N TIL Injera is a thin, soft fermented baked Ethiopian food made of teff flour using two rounds of complex fermentation process for 24 to 96 hours. It involves making absit first, or fermenting dough leftover after waste water is removed