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TIL the U.S. Postal Service is required by law to fly the POW-MIA flag anytime they fly the American Flag.

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b6y8j TIL An Alaskan town celebrates Independence Day by launching cars off a cliff
xVNRw TIL Fossil remains of an extinct colossus penguin was nearly 7 feet tall and weighed 250 pounds, unearthed in Antarctica
rWko TIL: 1986’s Howard the Duck was such a financial disaster that it (along with his recent divorce) forced George Lucas to sell his new CGI company to Steve Jobs, giving birth to Pixar.
4X4ob TIL that in 1994 a Boy Scout named David Hahn attempted to make a neutron "gun," and dangerously irradiated himself and his neighborhood in the process until his arrest.
79A7 TIL that when ‘Star Trek: The Next Generation’ began, Patrick Stewart dreaded having to learn and recite technobabble dialogue. He got used to doing so, however, and “space-time continuum” became his favorite technical phrase.