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TIL the top 5 largest protests in the US all happened in the last 3 years.

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yQBOM TIL that the emojis in some Twitter hashtags are called “Hashflags”, and it can cost $1 Million and up for brands and advertisers to buy one.
M7VZV TIL: The origin of the "tennis bracelet" came from the 1987 US Open when Chris Evert lost her diamond tennis bracelet and stopped the match to look for it
Br6Pe TIL The American WWII Bomber Flak Bait survived over 200 missions during WWII and had over 1000 holes from enemy fire during it's service.
WkZ54 TIL the paradoxical frog (Pseudis paradoxa) comes from tadpoles that are approximately 3-4 times larger than the resulting adult frog.
E16b7 TIL about 1st Lt. Mary Louise Hawkins who assisted with the evacuation of patients in WWII. Her plane was forced to make an emergency landing and a patient's trachea was severed by debris. Mary went full MacGyver and managed to keep the man alive with found items for 19 hrs until help arrived.