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TIL that Mars has it's own flag.

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kp0d TIL that a colony of mammoths survived the demise of the rest of their species by 6000 years on an isolated Siberian island.
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grEQ8 TIL - van Gogh's "Starry Night" (1889) may have been inspired by Hokusai’s "Great Wave" (1831). Van Gogh was a great admirer of this Japanese print, had written to his brother Theo about it, and both share a similar coloring of rich blues.
grP5b TIL Colin Farrell was accused of murder in Australia. The thing that got him off was that his friend had a diary entry saying that they done ecstasy together that day - on the opposite side of the city from where the murder took place
ep5BD TIL that the levitating businessman emoji 🕴️ is a depiction of reggae musician Peter Tosh of the Wailers