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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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oRR5r TIL that Disney doesn't own the copyright to their theme tune, "When You Wish Upon a Star" from 1940's Pinocchio. The rights to that song, as well as several other Disney songs, were sold in 1933 to a music publisher because Disney "had no means of commercially exploiting" them at the time.
R7kgw TIL the nests (beds) that Chimpanzees make for themselves on tree tops are much cleaner, containing fewer microbes and parasites, compared to human beds.
v0Rx TIL while not strictly legal, starting in the 1690s, British husbands used to sell their wives to end bad marriages. It was usually an auction announced by newspaper ad, to which the wife was led by a rope around her neck. Often the buyer was pre-arranged & the sale was a form of symbolic separation
0AGA TIL that the 5th US Congress and John Adams mandated health insurance for privately employed sailors and created a socialized government-operated Marine Hospital Service in 1798 by passing the “Act for the Relief of Sick & Disabled Seamen.”
klw1 TIL that groping is so common in Japan, signs warning of it are visible everywhere and train companies designate women-only cars where women can feel safe knowing they won’t be groped.