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TIL that the 4 red bars on each corner of the Union Jack don't align.

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aRKA TIL that having your alarm go off more than once in the morning doesn’t “slowly wake you up”, but actually makes it harder by causing you to restart the deep sleep cycle over and over again each time you hit snooze
KYv8Q TIL that the world’s first commercial electric plane flight successfully took off in Canada, marking a new era in aviation.
5Ynkn TIL Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails once released an entirely free album under a Creative Commons license with the message "this one's on me"
loy5A TIL that Ethel Merman volunteered her talents to sing a ZIP Code promotional jingle to the tune of Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah around 1963 which is the year the ZIP CODE was first introduced in the US. ZIP is an acronym for Zone Improvement Plan.
y6lV TIL that a white guy from Canada is in the Guinness Book of World Records twice for having the best selling reggae single in US history, as well as the highest charting reggae single in history.