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TIL, There was never an official flag for the country of Austria-Hungary. The flag we were used to, which shows the coat of arm of both country side by side, was a civil ensign used by merchant ships. The Habsburg flag represented Austrian region while the tricolor flag represented Hungarian region.

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Lkv9p TIL of TempleOS. An operating system written entirely by schizophrenic programmer Terry Davis, who believed his code was a third temple that could talk to God. The innovative os has been noted for its speed, one engineer noting Davis would have been another Wozniak or Jobs were he not mentally ill.
9wYRp TIL about the Degenerate Era, where the stars in our universe will run out of fuel, and the starry night sky we see today will no longer exist. Aging stars and stellar remnants will be too cold to support life. It's hypothesized to happen about 1 quintillion years after the Big Bang.
kL6g TIL that in the UK there is a high court judge known as Mr. Justice Mann
Z8Bmv TIL all female mammals have a clitoris
awA5L TIL Samsung invented a truck with a screen on the rear, that showed following drivers what the road ahead looks like, for safer overtaking.