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TIL: that the flag of Mozambique has an AK-47 on it.

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yjwa TIL that in Canada, a piece of land must have a tree on it to be called Island.
OdxR TIL Chimpanzees fart so loudly and frequently that scientists locate them in forest occasionally by following the farts.
J1Lrm TIL There was case in US where a person failed to die during electric chair execution and then his lawyers tried to argue that he was not dead but he had been executed and that it was cruel to go through a second time.
wLALJ TIL that reindeer regularly seek out psychedelic mushrooms. Tribes would also get high off the red-and-white 'shrooms, and some postulate that that is where the Santa myth came from.