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TIL American flags made in China are banned in the U.S. Military.

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nWEMG TIL that ancient people believed that there was a type of Amber (Lyngurium) made of petrified cat urine
yRLV TIL that the longest work of fiction is a Super Smash Bros. fanfiction called “The Subspace Emissary’s Worlds Conquest” that is four million words long, and spans 220 chapters as of now. That is twice as long as the longest novel “Men of Goodwill” by Jules Romain which is 2,070,000 words long.
W7Xgd TIL the organization of the periodic table of elements was created by Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev after having a dream where, in his dream, the elements arranged themselves by their atomic weights and electron properties.
WkwV9 TIL China used more cement in three years — between 2011 and 2013 — than the US did in the entire 20th century.
WkKXA TIL in the early 1890s one man released 100 European Starlings in New York City, which have grown to 200 million today as an invasive pest. The story goes he wished for all birds mentioned in Shakespeare's works to reside in America.