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TIL That the flag of Mississippi had the Confederate battle flag on it from 1894-2020

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MVYA TIL the United States sent 813 men, 27 helicopters and nuclear capable bombers to cut down a tree in the Korean DMZ.
kOMgW TIL McDonald’s ended its 40yr relationship with Heinz when a Burger King executive was named the ketchup maker’s CEO.
l6d5 TIL “"No president has ever used the [Emergency Alert System] system or its technical predecessors in the last 50 years, despite the Soviet missile crisis, a presidential assassination, the Oklahoma City bombing, major earthquakes and three recent high-alert terrorist warnings…”
Wkk48 TIL the accusations of Facebook secretly eavesdropping on their users’ conversations to better target advertising to those users was started by a mass communications professor who later denied the claim
KQo6 TIL that during Prohibition in the United States, Winston Churchill referred publicly to the Constitutional amendment banning alcohol as “an affront to the whole history of mankind.”