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TiL That the US flag should be properly lit if flown through night, otherwise should be taken down at sunset.

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PYA4V TIL An amendment abolishing the US Senate was proposed by socialist Representative Victor Berger in 1911, due to his belief that the House was corrupt as well as useless to the country as a whole.
BggML TIL A Spaceplane is in development set to launch in 2023
eppKk TIL in 1972 a traveling circus set up in the village of Uquakwa, IL. Overnight, their elephant was tethered to a tree in the park. Lightning struck and killed the elephant. The panicked Circus owners packed up all of their gear, and scurried out of town, leaving the 6500 lb dead Pachyderm behind.
e4nL TIL that, in the early nineties, Martin Scorsese and Steven Spielberg literally traded movie properties they were no longer interested in making. The films? Cape Fear (1991) and Schindler’s List (1993).
8Q4P TIL that in a competition to build the world’s tallest building, the architect of the Chrysler Building secretly built it with a 125 ft long spire inside of it. When his competitor’s building was completed, the spire was pushed up through the building making it taller by 119 ft