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TIL the Danish’s “Dannebrog” or ‘Danish cloth’ is the oldest continuing flag in use since being officially adopted in 1307.

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wokGJ TIL That from 1909-1937 the Netherlands had the time zone UTC+ 19 minutes 32.13 seconds
XGAQ TIL Windows 95 was the second most installed piece of software on computers in 1995; videogame DOOM was first.
R51b4 TIL that a 13th pair of cranial nerves, 'cranial nerve zero' or the terminal nerve, was discovered in humans in 1913, that appears just in front of the olfactory nerve and if found earlier would have been classed as CN1, but was not included on most medical diagrams.
4MlR TIL one would need to drink about 591 liters of SodaStream cola before breaking even. To put that in perspective, that’s 1.62 liters, about 4.5 cans, every day for an entire year, without actually saving any money.
0dLKN TIL that light passes through one-way mirrors equally from both directions. They only work because the observation room is kept dark and the room being observed is kept bright. The mirror would function more like a window if you turned off the lights in both rooms.