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TIL in Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, and Tennessee, vehicle owners can request a state-issued license plate featuring the Sons of Confederate Veterans logo, which incorporates the square Confederate battle flag.

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e0AWJ TIL in 2007, the Russian company Rossiya broadcasted television footage showcasing the Russians planting a flag at the bottom of the ocean in the North Pole. A 13 year old boy from Finland noticed some of the footage the station used was from the film Titanic.
J1B04 TIL about the Namamugi Incident, a 1862 diplomatic crisis that occurred when a British merchant refused to dismount for a Japanese daimyō's procession and was killed by his bodyguards, sparking the brief Anglo-Satsuma War.
kw95 TIL that the waffled style ice cream cone, hamburgers, hot dogs, iced tea, cotton candy, and Dr. Pepper, were first introduced to mass audiences or popularized at the 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair
Qy5e TIL: Freddie Mercury was Indian and took much pride in this, though it is generally over shadowed by him being an iconic British Rockstar
OGVl1 TIL about the LASD( Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department) deputy gangs