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TIL the Japanese Navy still uses the "rising sun" flag, a flag most commonly associated with Imperialist Japan, and the atrocities commited by their military during WWII.

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9J0m TIL In 1848, the British East India Company sent Botanist Robert Fortune on a trip to China’s interior, an area forbidden to foreigners to steal tea seeds from China to India.He succeeded and within his lifetime, India surpassed China as the world’s largest tea grower.
wLE0M TIL a graffiti artist took Facebook stock in lieu of cash for work done at their first headquarters. When FB went public his shares were worth $200 million.
P19GJ TIL: Ken McElroy, known as "the town bully," was murdered in 1982 in front of 30-46 witnesses by at least two shooters. But nobody saw anything, and the murder remains unsolved. Fascinating story.
78pOL TIL, Operation Paperclip was a secret United States intelligence program in which more than 1,600 German scientists, engineers, and technicians were taken from the former Nazi Germany to the U.S. for government employment after the end of World War II in Europe, between 1945 and 1959.
x6OAb TIL That The Shetland Islands are closer to Norway than they are to Edinburgh