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TIL Oregon is the only U.S. state with a 2-sided flag.

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6E67J TIL Jules Verne's wrote a novel in 1863 which predicted gas-powered cars, fax machines, wind power, missiles, electric street lighting, maglev trains, the record industry, the internet, and feminism. It was lost for over 100 years after his publisher deemed it too unbelievable to publish.
awP4o TIL that people eat ant eggs and they are considered a delicacy in Mexico.
p8rLA TIL about Richard Francis Burton, a British "explorer, geographer, translator, writer, soldier, orientalist, cartographer, ethnologist, spy, linguist, poet, fencer, and diplomat." He spoke 29 languages, translated the Kama Sutra, and shocked Victorian England with his essays about homosexuality.
5Ydwk TIL in 2018 the Domino’s in Russia offered up to 100 free pizzas every year for 100 years if a customer got the Domino’s logo tattooed visibly on their body. Initially intended to last a month the promotion proved to be so popular Domino’s ended it after a week with 350 accepted winners.
R5wn4 TIL even when adjusted for inflation, the budgets of the three original Indiana Jones films combined is still less compared to 2023's Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny