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

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X0omR TIL Hippocrates believed that hair was hollow and its purpose was storing semen, which was created in the brain. As men went through puberty the semen would flow into the hair all over their bodies. Women lacked body hair but had long head hair to more readily absorb semen during intercourse.
0wxa1 TIL that Portugal submitted an application to honour Magellan's circumnavigation route via the World Heritage List
0wROL TIL a mental hospital in Provo, Utah ran a haunted attraction called “The Haunted Castle” with many of the hospital patients as performers.
VMWDG TIL of Roza Shanina, whose teenage brother was killed by Germans in WWII. Seeing how sad her mother was, she joined the Red Army as a 17-year old sniper and killed 59 Nazis as revenge.
5Ye6r TIL on his last day at school, Sir Richard Branson's headmaster told him he would either end up in prison or become a millionaire. The man is now worth around $5.1 billion (as of November 2017 by Forbes)