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TIL That the Virginia state flag is the only U.S. state flag to feature nudity. (A bare female breast)

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mxpaE TIL Venezuela is the least food secure country in the world
yZjp TIL “backwards american flags” on airplanes and military uniforms are worn with the stars in front to “give the effect of the flag flying in the breeze as the wearer moves forward.”
16nyr TIL about the death of Poltergeist actress Dominique Dunne. She was strangled into a coma by her ex-boyfriend and passed away 5 days later. He was convicted of voluntary manslaughter and served just three and a half years in prison.
9l6r TIL: One in five Irish children hear voices - startling findings show “auditory hallucinations” common among Irish children
e0Y66 TIL In 2011 Mythbusters accidentally fired a cannonball through a residential neighborhood. The show was testing a myth at the Alameda Sheriff's Department bomb range when the ball bounced 700 yards off course going through a house, across the street, off a roof and into a car. No one was injured.