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TIL the Pledge of Allegiance was written to sell more flags in the US

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6OdY TIL There is a Harvard library that houses over 2,500 pigments and with the scientific instruments they use, they were able to prove a Jackson Pollock painting was fake based on the year a certain pigment was discovered.
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