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TIL The words “Allahu Akbar” are repeated 22 times on the flag of Iran.

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MaOK TIL the first UK same-sex marriage in prison consist of two men who are in prison for homophobic motivated murders.
yVrPw TIL that Sigmund Freud's theories inadvertently sparked a revolution in psychology; his ideas were seen (in many cases) as extremely outlandish and wrong, sparking a lot of psychologists to seek to prove them incorrect and revitalizing the field as a whole.
D1xle TIL That Sir Winston Churchill, at the hight of the Beatlemania, ended his parliamentary career that had begun before the Wright brothers' pioneering flight and had ended in an age when supersonic aircraft could deliver nuclear weapons. (1900-1964)
VBmPZ TIL that in 2017, a 16 year old girl died of complications from "Rapunzel Syndrome", which is a compulsion to eat your own hair
KO4B TIL that in 1913 a Slovakian coal miner invented a parachute skirt. He demonstrated it by jumping off a building in Washington within eye shot of the U.S. Patent Office.