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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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WkrL TIL Neptune’s moon Triton will one day be destroyed by the gravitational forces of Neptune and the resulting debris will give Neptune a ring system similar to Saturn.
7r00r TIL Midway Atoll is actually part of an underwater mountain range that stretches from Hawaii to Meiji Seamount, an underwater mountain near the coast of Russia.
VMYZ4 TIL James Cameron was supposed to make a Spider Man film in the 1990s with Leonardo DiCaprio as Spider Man & Arnold Schwarzenegger as Doctor Octopus
Zpaa4 TIL: About a company that is genetically engineering poplar trees (already fast-growing, asexually spreading trees) to reduce their energy needs by adding metabolic genes from pumpkins and algae. The engineered trees grow 1.5x than controls. They've planted 600 trees in Oregon and plan to do more.
rRbJd TIL: On an aeronautical chart, a big circled P means you may not fly there. Many world military and government sites are so-marked. Also, in the US, one may not overfly George Washington's home, Bush family homes, Disney sites, or the Boundary Waters canoe wilderness --or some WrestleMania venues.