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

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a8BAN TIL Blue whales have the largest penises on Earth. An erect blue whale penis is 12 inches (30 cm) in diameter and ten feet in length.
4Kb TIL Fox News Corporation discussed the possibility of creating a cable channel that would only air the Simpsons.
p8dd4 TIL When Nikola Tesla showed in 1898 a radio controlled boat, people accused him of having a trained monkey driving it.
Rmx7 TIL the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs also caused volcanoes to erupt everywhere, acid rain which burned flesh and vegetation, sulfuric gas that blocked out sunlight for years, vaporized rocks as deep as the sea floor, and mega tsunamis up to 2 miles (3.22km) high.
OGD6R TIL about Fet-Mets, the Swedish petrified miner. Found in 1719 in an underwater mine shaft, naturally mummified by Copper Sulfate. His former fiancée identified him as Fet-Mats Israelsson, who had disappeared 42 years earlier. The remains were put on display on and off again until 1930.