Today I learned 6 months ago

TIL That the current 50-State U.S. Flag was designed by a 17 year old in 1958 for a high school project. The flag was submitted to the White House after the student was told he could raise his B minus on the project if the flag was accepted by the government.

National Flag Foundation

The High Schooler Who Designed The 50-Star American Flag - National Flag Foundation

While most of his high school classmates took a more conventional approach for their class project, Bob G. Heft decided to do something a little mo...

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Today I learned 6 months ago

TIL From 1868 until 1913 in the US, 90% of all federal revenue came from taxes on liquor, beer, wine, and tobacco.

Fiscal Data Explains Federal Revenue

Check out @FiscalService Fiscal Data’s new federal revenue page! #FederalRevenue

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Today I learned 6 months ago

TIL that the monkey frequently on NBC’s Today Show in the 1950s and 60s, J. Fred Muggs, is still alive and living in obscurity in Florida.

J. Fred Muggs - Wikipedia

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Today I learned 6 months ago

TIL "Edelweiss" is not the Austrian national anthem or even a folk song. It was written in 1959 for The Sound of Music.

Edelweiss (song) - Wikipedia

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Today I learned 6 months ago

TIL about Williams Syndrome, a genetic condition that makes people more friendly and sociable aswell as soemewhat intellectually disabled and results in "elefin" facial features and a host of physical problems.

Williams syndrome - Wikipedia

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Today I learned 6 months ago

Til that Uranus (the planet) smells like farts.

ABC7 Los Angeles

Scientific study: Uranus smells like rotten eggs, sewage

A group of scientists published a study about the gases found in Uranus' atmosphere.

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Today I learned 7 months ago

TIL That Cop killer Donald Eugene Webb was on the FBI’s Top 10 Most Wanted list for longer than anyone else at the time, and never captured. Turns out the reason for that is his wife was secretly hiding him at her own house and after he died she buried him on her property.

Donald Eugene Webb - Wikipedia

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Today I learned 7 months ago

TIL that Melbourne is 20km closer to Antarctica than is to Darwin Australia. https://www.ricklecouteur.com/post/melbourne-closer-to-antarctica-than-to-darwin #til #todayilearned https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1m243ch/til_that_melbourne_is_20km_closer_to_antarctica/

Today I learned 7 months ago

TIL the Star Spangled Banner has more lyrics than what we are ever taught and shown. https://starspangledmusic.org/the-star-spangled-banner-correct/ #til #todayilearned https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1m09iiy/til_the_star_spangled_banner_has_more_lyrics_than/

Today I learned 7 months ago

TIL: The opposite of "synonym" is "antonym" https://www.wordhippo.com/what-is/the-opposite-of/synonym.html #til #todayilearned https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1lwzyj8/til_the_opposite_of_synonym_is_antonym/

Today I learned 7 months ago

TIL Alexander Fleming on discovering penicillin was quoted as saying: “When I woke up just after dawn on September 28, 1928, I certainly didn’t plan to revolutionise all medicine by discovering the world’s first antibiotic, or bacteria killer. But I suppose that was exactly what I did.”

Alexander Fleming - Wikipedia

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Today I learned 7 months ago

TIL that Dexter Holland, lead singer of punk rock band the offspring has a PhD in molecular biology

Dexter Holland - Wikipedia

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Today I learned 7 months ago

TIL about a congential disorder in humans where the walls of the bladder, vagina, and anus fuse together, creating a cloaca

Persistent cloaca - Wikipedia

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Today I learned 7 months ago

TIL that it is possible for additional roadways to create more traffic rather than alleviate it, known as Braess' Paradox

Braess's paradox - Wikipedia

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Today I learned 7 months ago

TIL that, immediately after John F. Kennedy was assassinated, an order came down from the Secretary of the Navy to destroy all personal logs associated with the use of the presidential yacht USS Sequoia during the Kennedy Administration.

USS Sequoia (presidential yacht) - Wikipedia

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Today I learned 7 months ago

TIL Jennifer Aniston had a strained relationship with her mother, who was a former model and very critical of her looks. She recalls not being the 'model child' her mother had wished for.

Best Life

Jennifer Aniston Says Model Mother Was "Very Critical" of Her Looks — Best Life

Jennifer Aniston Says Model Mother Was "Very Critical" of Her Looks

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Today I learned 8 months ago

TIL that France's deadliest day in WWI was August 22, 1914. Following a series of reckless offensive charges, 27,000 French soldiers were killed in less than 24hrs. This figure is more than any other day in French history, and is half as many as all U.S. soldiers killed in the entire Vietnam War https://www.reuters.com/article/lifestyle/a-slaughter-then-oblivion-mark-fr… #til #todayilearned https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1l0nveh/til_that_frances_deadliest_day_in_wwi_was_august/

Today I learned 8 months ago

TIL that in 1960, three teenagers were brutally murdered while camping at Finland's Lake Bodom, and the case remains one of the country’s most infamous unsolved crimes.

Lake Bodom murders - Wikipedia

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Today I learned 8 months ago

TIL that the Basilica, a cannon used to besiege Constantinople, was so powerful that its recoil killed its own operators

Basilic (cannon) - Wikipedia

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Today I learned 8 months ago

TIL that Honduras, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala and Nicaragua were briefly united in the 1800s as the Federal Republic of Central America

Federal Republic of Central America - Wikipedia

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