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TIL the flag of Liberia is the only current flag in the world that was modeled after and resembles the American flag

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yeja TIL that the velociraptor sounds in Jurassic Park are actually the sounds of mating tortoises recorded at Marine World
7rmP TIL The Alien costume included real vertebrae; Rolls Royce auto-parts, latex and K-Y jelly.
GYOXQ TIL The Toba catastrophe theory that states human population was bottle-necked about 70K years ago due to a super massive volcanic eruption. Humanity may have dwindled to less than 10K individuals and many other animal species were similarly affected.
a8YOA TIL of RAS syndrome, the act of appending a word to the end of an abbreviated term that already exists at the tail of it. e.g. ATM (automated teller machine) machine, PIN (personal identification number) number and amusingly, RAS (redundant acronym syndrome) syndrome
rrpd TIL the difference between white and dark meat is due to the difference in fast-twitch and slow-twitch muscles, respectively. This is why ground-based birds like chickens and turkeys have white meat for breasts and wings while flying birds like duck and geese have dark meat.