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TIL one of the six flags in Six Flags is the Confederate flag

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aAZN TIL that Marilyn Manson did a cover of Suicide Is Painless, the theme song to the TV show MAS*H, and said the song was “more depressing and offensive than anything I’ve written.”
olGL TIL that in China, women who remain unmarried until their late 20s are given the term “leftover women”
dNjr TIL, Frodo had the ring for 17 years before going on his quest instead of the handful of days the movie shows.
9wxGr TIL: Engineers were given 10 weeks to develop the GBU-28 bunker buster to penetrate Saddam's troops which were buried 30-50 feet deep. In testing the weapon managed to bury itself over 100 feet deep, so deep that the expense in digging it up could not be justified and was deployed immediately after.
DQOPD Today I learned that Stilton cheese cannot legally be made in Stilton, the village which gave the cheese its name