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TIL that the Flag of the European Union was Inspired by the Blessed Virgin Mary

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GrVJ TIL that in 2014, a spiritual healer in Pakistan claimed he could resurrect the dead. A 40 year old man volunteered to die. Once the healer realised the volunteer wasn’t coming back to life, he was taken into custody.
waGM TIL the inventor of the fidget spinner surrendered the patent in 2005 because she could not afford the $400 fee to renew the patent
5vBk TIL On August 16, 2013, Google went down for 5 minutes and in that time, the global internet traffic dropped by 40%.
yVV6a TIL about the Demon Core, a spherical 6.2 kg. mass of plutonium intented to be a third nuclear weapon against Japan. After Japan surrended, it was kept in the US where it caused the death of two Nuclear Physicists.
nvV9 TIL IBM made the world’s smallest movie by moving around individual atoms, magnified 100 million times