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TIL that the Olympic Rings logo represents Earth's five continents and the colors of the rings, with the white background, were chosen because those colors could make every country's flag as each existed in 1915.

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D1GZe TIL after becoming the first woman to fly across the Atlantic, Amelia Earhart started her own fashion line. Unconventional materials such as parachute silk and textile from airplane wings were used in some designs, and she gave a nod to her love of aviation with buttons shaped like propellers.
1glO TIL that the inventor of the mobile phone made the first ever call to his rival to gloat.
OV9g TIL that only 59% of people voted in favor of repealing the ban on interracial marriage in Alabama in 2000
dD4vB TIL that the father of Stewart Copeland, a founding member of rock band The Police, was one of the founders of the US Central Intelligence Agency, Miles Copeland Jr.
7rwGp TIL King Bhumibol Adulyadej of Thailand around 1960. An accidental monarch who was not born in the direct line of succession, he took the throne in 1946 at the age of 18 and became the personification of Thai nationhood. He would become known as the peoples king.