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TIL that if your flag is damaged or worn, according to the US flag code it should be burned in a dignified way

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NXOnb TIL only one Navy ship in active duty have sank an enemy ship: USS Constitution. (also the oldest active Navy ship)
LQjE9 TIL of Užupis, a self-proclaimed independent nation that declared its independence on April Fool's. Included in the Constitution are "everyone has the right to love a cat" and "a dog has the right to be a dog."
rRl4o TIL in 2007, a study was done to see if women were more talkative than men. 396 individuals were strapped with voice recorders for several days. Both men and women were found to speak an average of 16,000 words per day.
v5AL TIL that the day after Thanksgiving isn’t referred to as “Black Friday” because of the profits seen by retailers, but was originally coined by traffic cops in Philadelphia to describe the disastrous traffic conditions
epdlE TIL: Norodom Sihanouk was King of Cambodia twice (1941–1945, 1993–2004), Chief of State (1960–1970), President of the State Presidium (1975–1976), President of the Senate (1955–1956), and served as Prime Minister ten times between 1945 and 1962.