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TIL that there’s a United States flag of peacetime. It’s striped vertically instead of horizontally.

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XDmX TIL an Israeli chemistry professor has invented an “anti-date rape straw” that detects date rape drugs present in a drink and alerts the victim by changing color
6ee7 TIL women in ancient Rome wore the sweat of Gladiators to improve their beauty and complexion
7reJP TIL the so-called 'Autism Epidemic' isn't an epidemic at all but rather an increase in reported incidents due to a growing awareness of autism and changes to the condition’s diagnostic criteria.
MeX98 TIL Yves Volel was Anderson Cooper’s math teacher. Volel was a Haitian activist and political leader who fled Haiti in '65 and became a U.S. math teacher. When he returned to Haiti to run for president in ’87, he was assassinated.
VVaG TIL warming temperatures are making WWI military sites high up in the Alps accessible again, revealing relics and bodies from the “White War.”