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TIL Blackbeard’s flag depicted a skeleton spearing a heart while toasting the devil.

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xV0j5 TIL from 1884 to 1955, Bombay (in India) used a timezone of UTC+04:51.
4karo TIL of Buttergate - a 2021 controversy caused by Canadian dairy farmers adding palm oil to cows' diets, resulting in butter that didn't spread at room temperature.
M7V48 TIL that Albert Severin Roche, who was initially rejected by the French Army for being "too puny", was publicly called "the first soldier of France" by General Foch in 1918 for his heroism in WWI
OnJ1 TIL of the only lynching in Canada’s history, when, in 1884, an American mob crossed the border in order to hang a Native American teenager wrongly accused of murder.
PjAL TIL that in 1965 a dolphin and his trainer entered into a sexual relationship, which after being forcibly ended caused the dolphin to commit suicide.