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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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daZ7 TIL India is launching its mass electronic surveillance program in 2014. It will give 9 Indian govt. agencies—incl. the tax dept—the power to access, in real-time, phone conversations, text, emails, web search data & social media activity WITHOUT the approval of the courts or parliament.
v1dWj TIL that Bob Dylan has been on the same tour since 1988.
N70aQ TIL that one of the oldest and most massive organisms, Pando, is dying.
GB1g TIL A man called Sir Grahame Donald fell out of a Sopwith Camel while doing a loop and then landed back onto his plane wing, climbed back aboard and regained control.
X0kKP TIL in 2017, a man of the Fipa tribe disrespected his mother, and was disciplined by his tribe in the "traditional" way: Whipped, immersed in cow manure, mocked with song, and fined 1 goat and some cornmeal