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TIL flags are flown at half-mast because the invisible flag of death is flying at the top.

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kVMd TIL that the “real” Christopher Robin, of whom the “Winnie the Pooh” stories were inspired by, actually hated the books, and resented his father for writing them.
V4Jp TIL screen legend beauty Hedy Lamarr was also an inventor who designed a jam-proof radio guidence system for torpedoes which is one of the basic sources behind spread spectrum communication like blue-tooth technology, GPS, wi-fi, and cell phones
WkdgX TIL acetate frames are illegal to produce in South Korea.
NDo1 TIL that a Filipino Senator once spoke for 18 straight hours to stall for time while waiting for a member of his party to arrive to cast the deciding vote on the control of the Senate. After the outspoken Senator was done, the arriving senator voted against his own party.
Ov7Y TIL no 1 Modern Warfare 3 champion of the world was billionaire Kim Dotcom and not until his US arrest in NZ for owning Megaupload.com did he fall to no 2