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TIL about the Flag of Cusco. Popular in Peru for decades, it was changed in 2021 due to its resemblance to the more recognizable LGBT flag.

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v51j TIL a man tried to assassinate President Andrew Jackson. The man was apprehended after President Jackson beat him with his cane.
pYPLG TIL an outlaw isn't just any criminal. Instead, an outlaw is someone who has been sentenced to be outside of the law's protection. They don't have the right to a trial and anyone can kill or persecute them.
4kB8b TIL Jimmy Kimmel Live! Has not recorded live since 2004 because censors were unable to properly bleep a barrage of swearing from actor Thomas Jane
d8XWr TIL along with the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Bombing of Tokyo was just as bad but often overlooked. Over 100,000 people were killed, several times that number injured, and 1,000,000 displaced in a napalm-filled, incendiary bomb attack by 334 low-flying B-29 bombers.
1g17 TIL that the little boy from the Shining teaches Anatomy at a community college in Kentucky and he tells his students at the beginning of each semester that they will fail class if they ask him anything about The Shining.