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

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Pe5E TIL in the 1970s the entire native population of an island in the Indian Ocean was forcibly removed to establish a naval base
dME TIL that 4 of the 12 people killed in Aurora were acting in true super hero fashion when they blocked their girlfriends from being killed by taking bullets for them and sacrificing their lives.
rEn1 TIL MTV contacted Weird Al and told him they would not air his “Don’t Download This Song” video if references to filesharing programs were not in some way removed, so he “made the creative decision to bleep them out as obnoxiously as possible, so that there would be no mistake I was being censored.”
j6pPj TIL the SCRAM button on nuclear reactors is an acronym for Single Control Rod Axe Man, which initially was just a guy who'd cut a rope to drop in the boron control rods in an emergency
8egdL TIL armadillos are known to kill and eat the infants of much larger animals like deer, sheep, and cows