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TIL Anne Frank's name is pronounced "Anna"

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J17W1 TIL The current American flag was designed by a high school student. It was part of a school project for Bob Heft's junior-year history class, and it only earned a B-.
KOlw4 TIL when Robin Wright showed up at Rob Reiner's house to meet William Goldman, the door opened and "[Wright] was standing there in this little white summer dress, with her long blonde hair, and she had a halo from the sun. She was backlit by God. And Bill Goldman… said, 'Well, that's what I wrote.'"
won0J TIL that the school with the highest number of students in the world is the City Montessori School in India. It accommodates over 60,000 students daily.
D1dxJ TIL that despite 12 indictments and several convictions of high level officials involved in the Iran-Contra scandal, all perpetrators were either pardoned or had sentences overturned resulting in no prison time. The only person to go to jail was a minister who stole a street sign in protest.
N76xJ TIL that before the Nintendo GameCube was released, one of the codenames for it were “Dolphin”