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

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7ABL TIL Matt Groening, creator of The Simpsons, was once subjected to a strip-search by airport security who considered him a suspicious character. As he was led away, a little boy said, “Ha, ha!” like Nelson on The Simpsons. Groening found the boy’s mockery the most irritating thing about the incident.
E6j7 TIL that D.W. Griffiths, who made the racist pro-KKK film “The Birth of a Nation”, responded to his critics with subsequent films that preached social justice and the first ever movie about an interracial love story.
VQw8 TIL: 4 Marlboro Men Have Died Of Smoking Related Diseases
xeek TIL that there are between two and seventeen pyramids, and 3000 structures (the possible remains of an ancient city) still buried under the sands of Egypt.
LMnr TIL There was a large swastika made of larch trees in Germany that went unnoticed for 55 years