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TIL the Hawaiian flag has a Union Jack on it because when King Kamehameha received one as a gift from British traders, he liked it so much that he just stole the design to use as his own.

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ppAb TIL the longest marriage on record ended this year when Karam Chand died in England. He and his wife had been married for 90 years.
9YYAG Today I learned "CAPTCHA" is an acronym: "Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart"
p86WQ TIL that during the Great Depression, farmers who'd had their farms foreclosed on would show up to the bank's auction and buy their farms back for pennies with low bids. Anyone else that tried to outbid would be threatened by the rest of the community. These came to be known as penny auctions,
WkNpN TIL about Adrian Carton de Wiart, a British soldier. He fought in 3 wars and was shot in the head, face, stomach, ankle, leg, hip, and ear, survived 2 plane crashes, escaped a POW camp and tore off his own fingers when a doctor refused to amputate them. He lived to be 83.
n7oo TIL through coarticulation, your brain decides the placement of your tongue and lips based on the sounds that follow the first letter. i.e. your lips are shaped differently for the /k/ in kid vs. /k/ in cop.