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TIL the current chief legal counsel to the Philippine President is 100 years old

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6ElEQ TIL the 13-star American flag attributed to Betsy Ross was just one of many designs that fit the Continental Congress’ resolution that the flag have “thirteen stripes, alternate red and white; that the union be thirteen stars, white in a blue field”
x6ekk TIL: The little (or big) farts that proceed a poop are called the Anal Sampling Reflex.
OopD6 TIL that salmon is actually a whitefish; its red color comes from a chemical absorbed from plankton
gMbOA TIL in 1920 a young American woman found a financial sponsor though a newspaper, traveled to France, and learned how to become a stunt pilot. She returned to the US as the first woman in the country to hold a pilots license. She was of African and Native American descent.
nkMB TIL a 2005 study taught capuchin monkeys the value of money using small silver coins. During one experiment, a monkey was observed trading a coin for sex. The monkey who received the coin promptly traded it for a grape.