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TIL: Saudi Arabia carries out crucifixions.

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rNeWM TIL that the winner of the 1927 Alaska Territorial Flag design competition was a seventh grade orphan named Benny Benson. He was awarded a watch with the flag emblem on it and 1,000 dollars for education that he put toward studying diesel mechanics.
E1brX TIL that photographer Eddie Adams regretted that Vietnamese General Nguyen Ngoc Loan was perceived negatively after his Pulitzer-winning photograph of Loan executing a war criminal and described Loan as "a goddamned hero."
VZY4 TIL only 3 films have swept the “Big Five” Academy Awards for Best Picture, Director, Actor, Actress, and Screenplay: It Happened One Night (1934), One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975), and The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
bvyp TIL that a language dies every 14 days
D1xbV TIL there’s an orangutan at the San Diego Zoo that likes to sneak out of his cage at night and wander the park, then sneak back in the morning