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TIL Mormon Missionaries aren’t allowed to swim while they’re on mission

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oBRjW TIL during the Hungarian revolution (against the Soviets), the Hungarians cut out the communist seal from their flag. This Hungarian flag with a hole in the center became a symbol of the revolution.
l70AN TIL Giancarlo Esposito sang the theme song for The Electric Company. A variety comedy show that ran from 1971 to 1977
XEKN8 TIL of the top 200 WW2 Fighter 'aces', 195 of them were German. The other 5 were made up of 3 Japanse and 2 Finnish.
Z84vv TIL that the Soviet Union tried to suppress Genghis Khan’s memory in Mongolia by removing his story from school textbooks and forbidding people from making pilgrimages to his birthplace
woAw6 TIL of Vanessa Lawrence, a woman who was on the 91st floor of the World Trade Center (North Tower) as Flight 11 crashed into it, and survived with only a cut on her foot