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TIL the Irish ‘Tri-colour’ flag symbolizes the struggle that was once in Ireland. Green represents the Catholics, orange represents the Protestants and white represents the hope for peace between both sides.

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VMlxB TIL that 90% of the coal we use today only exists because 300 million years ago, microbes that could ingest wood, did not exist, so trees would fall on top of each other, and the weight of all that heavy wood, over millions of years, would compress those trees into peat and then, into coal.
a80Ay TIL about Yukio Mishima, author and right wing activist who after joining the the SDF at 45 tried to spark a coup aimed at restoring the emperor and shogunate, barricaded in an office of a high rank officer committed seppuku. His second failed 3x to sever his head, another friend needed to step in.
7EvM TIL Keanu Reeves was tricked into making a movie because a friend forged his signature and Reeves didn’t want to fight the legal battle
X5GP TIL before realizing his true potential in comedy, Will Ferrell worked as a teller at Wells Fargo; apparently he lost close to $600 in his first two days on the job
ljNB TIL that while recording their debut album, 40oz. to Freedom, Sublime did not have permission to use the studio they were using. Their friend snuck them in. Bradley Nowell had said “…they never knew we were there. We managed to get $30,000 worth of studio time for free”.