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TIL most flags, when hung vertically should be flipped to keep the "honour point" still in the top left.

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05yR TIL Robin Williams was agreed to be paid $75,000 for voicing the Genie in Aladin, which went on to gross over $200 million domestically. Disney later sent him a late Picasso painting (estimated at the time to be worth $1 million) as a way of thanking him for his work.
nWl77 TIL that Jimi Hendrix was in the US Army for a short stint in the early 1960's, but he eventually got kicked out due to his disinterest and behaviour problems.
MeLwa TIL the corpse of a construction worker still remained, and was partially visible from the street, in the New Orleans Hard Rock Hotel more than 3 months after the site's collapse.
9YNbG TIL that the AI that beat the world’s best DOTA player did so only because it was a 1v1, forced the player to use the same hero it was using, had access to Dota’s API, and ended up losing multiple times after players switched strategy
VrgD TIL Przewalski’s horse is the only truly wild horse left in the world. Other horses like American mustangs or Australian brumbies are feral domesticated horses.