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

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l7XyA TIL that there is a random square in Cambridge, Massachusetts bearing the name of the previous King of Thailand. King Bhumibol was born there while his father was a student at Harvard medical school. King Bhumibol Adulyadej Square was dedicated in 1990 by his daughter HRH Chulabhorn.
eNX5 TIL In 2011, a team at the U.S. Department of Energy hacked into a one of the most commonly used electronic voting machines and concluded in their report: “anyone with $26 in parts and an eighth-grade science education would be able to manipulate the outcome of an election.”
BgNoK TIL There are some hidden oil wells located around Los Angeles. They are disguised as plain buildings on the outside. One oil well is even named the "Tower of Hope" and is decorated with flowers.
ADVlw TIL that the USA has 12 cities/towns named after Amsterdam, 7 named after Madrid, 5 named after Milan, 5 named after Paris, 4 named after Venice, and 4 named after Vienna
lo7OA Yes, but no more than listening to Justin Bieber. The misconception that there's something unique about Mozart's ability to increase brainpower began in 1993, with a paper in Nature. Neurobiologists Gordon Shaw, Frances Rauscher and Katherine Ky of the University of California at Irvine found that students who listened to 10 minutes of a Mozart sonata demonstrated a temporary increase in spatial-temporal reasoning, as measured by an IQ test.