› added 5 years ago

894

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

Read more britannica.com

via reddit.com

0waDN TIL A medieval French soldier climbed up a toilet into a besieged castle to let his army in. King John of England had specifically requested that toilet be installed for personal use during church services. The castle’s fall led to English loss of Normandy and the signing of the Magna Carta.
b9dGQ TIL That the Library of Congress has a comprehensive digitized, searchable archive of United States Newspapers dating back to 1777. Free to view and download.
X050P TIL: There is a graveyard/garden in Vatican City that you can only enter if you speak German or if you are Dutch/Belgian. It also is technically part of Italy but fully under the control of the Vatican.
16r8W TIL the only resident ambassador in Liechtenstein is a knight of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta.
W7aEA TIL that the single greatest concentration of shark attacks on human history took place when the USS Indianapolis was sunk by a Japanese submarine on 30 July 1945 and survivors were left in the water for four days, during which time around 600 men died of exposure, dehydration, and shark attacks.