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TIL American soldiers and Boy Scouts regularly burn the US Flag, as the most dignified way to dispose of it when the flag has been damaged/become unfit to represent the United States.

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MeQgW TIL that some deaf people with schizophrenia don’t experience the common symptom of hearing voices, but rather, they see visual hallucinations of disembodied hands or lips making words.
yw0a TIL of the Romansch language. Spoken only in a small part of the Swiss Alps, it is a direct descendant of the Vulgar Latin used by the Roman Imperial troops garrisoned there.
0dXVy TIL There are consumers who are known as Harbingers of Failure. They have a knack for buying products that turn out to be market flops. "when the harbingers buy a product at least three times, it’s really bad news: The probability of success for that product drops 56 percent."
eaGL TIL that the Sanskrit word for war literally means “a desire for more cows”
R71gw TIL an almost 80 year old man fought the British in 1775, survived being stabbed multiple times and went on to live well into his 90s.