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

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yQZQp TIL John Cleese based the character of Basil Fawlty on Donald Sinclair, an eccentric hotel owner who’d accommodated Monty Python. Sinclair threw Eric Idle’s briefcase out of a window because he mistook it for a bomb, and criticised Terry Gilliam’s table manners because he was American.
oBvOY TIL Uraguay flight 571 crashed in the Andes in the 70s; survivors waited 2 months for help, all while being forced to eat the raw flesh of dead passengers. Two men walked 10 days and 40 miles through the mountain to safety
X04N8 TIL There is an annual festival held in the state of Washington centered around D.B. Cooper and his successful hijaking
A9xw TIL The Gulf of Tonkin incident which the U.S. Government used as an excuse to start the Vietnam War according to 2005 declassified papers never actually happened.
R5ao8 TIL the province of Quebec never officially approved a series of amendements made to the Canadian Constitution in 1982. Efforts by the Canadian government to secure their approval in 1987 and 1992 both failed. The Supreme Court ruled that Quebec's formal approval was not necessary.