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TIL Pocatello, Idaho used to have what the American Vexilogical Association called "the worst flag in America"

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WkOYX TIL The version of the song “Po Lazarus” used in the movie O Brother, Where Art Thou? was an actual recording of prisoners singing at Mississippi State Penitentiary in 1959
7rvWr TIL Coca-Cola didn’t become completely cocaine-free until 1929.
0dJNy TIL a Boeing 727 disappeared 290km off the coast of Canada in 1990 and no trace has ever been found
D0QJ TIL that the 17-minute long psychedelic rock song In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida, by Iron Butterfly, was originally named In the Garden Of Eden. The lead singer was so high, drunk, or both that he slurred the words, creating the title.
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