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TIL the Filipino flag is flown with the red stripe up in times of war and blue stripe up in times of peace.

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rNew4 TIL that, about quantum physics, while Einstein thought something was missing in our knowledge, Bohr thought that our reality is a fantasy and the real truth is quantum weirdeness. Bohr meant that, on a large scale, certain quantum properties disappear (quantum decoherence).
8a6pb TIL The husband of British writer Angelica Garnett (a niece of Virginia Woolf) had once been a lover of her biological father. She later dated a painter who had also been one of her father's lovers.
B5lb TIL A map making company in the 1930s placed a made up an hamlet (village) in their maps as a copyright trap. Years later the village started showing up on Rand McNally maps. The originator of the map sued for copyright infringement, but in fact locals and government had adopted and used the name.
b69xN TIL about the Gatun Dam. It was built to facilitate construction of the Panama Canal and was the largest damn in the world at the time.
5bY8 TIL birds don’t have the same biochemical pain pathway for spicyness as mammals so they don’t suffer at all from capsaicin