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TIL the American flag was designed by a High School Student. Happy Independence Day!

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WkBEL TIL of the Order of Brothelyngham, a mock Catholic order that satirized corrupt medieval clergy by electing a lunatic as abbot and kidnapping local citizens.
nkYP TIL “The needs of the many outweighs the needs of the few” has no classical history. It was first spoken by Spock in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan.
JYd4j TIL of Aleksa Zdravkovic, a Serbian soldier who carried the same loaf of bread baked by his mother for 8 years through the Balkan Wars and WWI as a good luck charm until he returned home to Pirot. It remains preserved in a museum to this day.
LQE4P TIL that, to prey on sharks more easily, orcas (killer whales) use their powerful jaws and speed to flip sharks upside down, which induces tonic immobility in the shark (a state of paralysis).
vPgm7 TIL there's a "femme fatale" firefly (photuris) that lures in males of other species by mimicking their mating flashes and then eating the poor, unsuspecting fools