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TIL that the flag of Hawaii is the only US state flag to include a foreign country's national flag.

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MeWP7 TIL Asian-Americans have a life expectancy of 87.3 years. That's higher than every country in the world.
PMpJ TIL that on the Eastern front of WW2, Russian troops paraded naked women through the forest as psyops. When the Germans bunched up to check out the women with binoculars, they were hit by Russian artillery.
OonpR TIL that there are more ways to arrange a deck of cards than atoms on Earth. Any time you pick up a well-shuffled deck, you are almost certainly holding an arrangement of cards that has never before existed and might not exist again.
eQv4 TIL a Texas dad engaged in a 3-hour armed standoff with police while trying to prevent doctors from pulling the plug on his brain-dead son. The son eventually came out of his coma and recovered. Dad was charged for the incident, but the charges were later reduced.
wLLKJ TIL the term 'soap operas' originated from daily 15 minute programs on the radio and were so-called because they were sponsored by soap companies, such as Colgate-Palmolive and Procter & Gamble. Soap operas were specifically engineered to appeal to women with the intention of increasing sale of soap