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TIL: Earth has no official planet-wide flag design although some have been proposed.

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ol5E TIL in 1982 there was a baby, born 2 months premature, with a bullet in his brain. He lived.
l7oYV TIL the elephant clock was invented by a 13th century guy called Ismail al Jazzari. This invention was a weight powered water clock in the form of an asian elephant. An elephant driver automaton striked the cymbal and a mechanical bird chirped at a specific time.
VMGgp TIL in 1918, microbiologist Alice Catherine Evan warned that raw milk should be pasteurized to protect people from various diseases. She was met with skepticism, particularly because she was a woman and did not have a Ph.D. During the 1920s, scientists around the world made the same findings
kOZw7 TIL: The tiny island of Ōkunoshima in Japan (otherwise known as Usagi Jima or "Bunny Island"), previously the WWII manufacturing site for thousands of tons of poison gas, is now home to hundreds of feral rabbits and nobody is quite sure where they came from.
m61y TIL that King Louis XI was known as “The Universal Spider”, as his taste for intrigue and intense diplomatic activity led his enemies to accuse him of spinning intricate webs of plots and conspiracies.