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TIL: In 2009 the city council of Madison, WI voted to make the plastic lawn flamingo the city’s offical bird

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l7Yg7 TIL in the Battle of Tannenberg during WW1 where the Russians were so thoroughly defeated by Germany that their commanding general Alexander Samsonov committed suicide in shame. Russia lost over 50,000 soldiers.
mvgx TIL that today, on 1999 July 28th, Tommy Chong was the very first person in America to receive a medical marijuana card, in the state of California.
eZ5b TIL that a New Zealand father was arrested and taken from his children for 8 months because people at a park mistook him kissing his daughter as indecent assault.
BrBEW TIL bills of $1k, $5k, $10k, and up to $100k used to be in circulation, a few of which were curtailed by Nixon in '69 to prevent them from being used in money-laundering
bkQ9 TIL Mackinac Island, MI has banned motorized vehicles for over a hundred years. Most travel by horse-drawn carriages or bikes.