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TIL from 1814-1830 the French flag was just plain white

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ADZMd TIL that when MIA was challenged about the use of gunshot sounds in Paper Planes, she drew from her own experience and said... “Look, I’ve been shot at so I’m quite comfortable with gunshot sounds. If you have a problem with it, go and talk to the people who were shooting at me."
pmL4 TIL it’s actually “Whet your appetite”, not ‘wet’. Whet means to sharpen, as as a whetstone sharpens a knife.
oR5mo TIL that ancient Romans used urine to clean their clothes because the ammonia in urine acted as a natural detergent
b6Rka TIL that the guard goose is a domestic goose that is used as a guard animal both on farms and in other situations.
VBJoD TIL Americans invented the Internet, but a British man invented the World Wide Web.