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TIL that Minnesota Has Been Holding Onto a Captured Confederate Flag for Over a Century, and When Virginia Asked for It Back, Governor Jesse Ventura Responded: "Why?" he asked. "We won."

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gr8x8 TIL that Jimmy Carter (born 1924) was the first president of the United States of American to have been born in a hospital.
Eg9pP TIL about Arthur Whitfield, an English physician and pioneer of dermatology. Whitfield discovered that athlete's foot (tinea pedis) was caused by a fungus infection, and created a treatment for it called "Whitfield's ointment."
6Ewm8 TIL about a geopolitical oddity that is Point Roberts, Washington. As a small piece of American soil in Canada it's been called "The best gated community in America". To enter by land you need to cross an international border checkpoint.
NEOE TIL that after about a millennia of teaching about “Limbo”, in 2007 the Roman Catholic Church concluded that it doesn’t actually exist.
J1lmB TIL that to satisfy a record contract, goth rocker Andrew Eldritch recorded an album as the band SSV-NSMABAAOTWMODAACOTIATW, said to stand for "Screw Shareholder Value - Not So Much a Band as Another Opportunity to Waste Money on Drugs and Ammunition Courtesy of the Idiots at Time Warner.”