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TIL to “testify” means to swear by your testicles, invented by Roman civilization

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Wkngd TIL that only two foreign flags were flown over the White House. Flag of Serbia was the first one to be raised in 1918 for their WW1 achievments and war solidarity, with latter being French flag in 1920 to commemorate the French Bastille Day
AD6Ag TIL there is an international standard for writing the date called ISO 8601, that uses the format YYYY-MM-DD. Although it has been around since 1988, very few countries actually use it.
VyyQ TIL in every British nuclear submarine there is a handwritten letter from the British Prime Minister, to be opened only if the country has been decimated by nuclear war.
E6Bd TIL that when the Latvian hockey team plays at home and wins a game, fans pay a visit to the embassy of the opposing team’s home country and lay flowers at its gate
VBmVG TIL thay the first European appearance of Arabic numerals was in a document from the year 976 called "Codex Albendensis", so called because it was written in the Spanish town of Albelda de Iregua.