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TIL the Danish flag - or Dannebrog - is said to date from 1219 and is celebrated as the oldest continuously used national flag in the world

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pYrPb TIL Clear Lake in California, is the Oldest Lake in North America.
W1DL TIL that two of Saturn’s moons, Janus and Epimetheus, only have an orbital altitude difference of 50km. Due to this, one moon will ‘catch up’ to the other every four years, and they will begin a 100 day process in which they exchange orbital positions.
6KWZ TIL - Leopold II of Belgium is responsible for an estimated 10 million deaths in Congo. Also, he was so notorious for mutilation that the left hand was removed from his statue.
rRrGo TIL Tuberculosis Shaped Victorian Fashion
E1Roo TIL that it was Napoleon’s army that discovered the Rosetta Stone. Which was the key to unlocking the code of Egyptian hieroglyphics, a language that had been dead for 2000 years.