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TIL that every two years the people of Brussels create a Flower Carpet with more than 500,000 flowers.

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E14Gw TIL In 1932, General Macarthur and then Major Patton Tear-Gassed WWI Veterans Calling Themselves The "Bonus Army." They Had Marched On Washington Demanding Full Payment For Their Service During WWI. 2 Vets Were Killed. Historians Claim That Without The Protest, There May Have Never Been A GI Bill.
grEo4 TIL "One nation, under God" isn't a centuries-old relic, rather it was added as recently as in 1954.
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