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The flags of Chad and Romania are identical.
The name Chicago was first recorded in 1688, where it appears as Chigagou, an Algonquian word meaning “onion field.”
The study of flags is called vexillology.
Chicago’s first permanent settler in 1779 was Jean Baptiste Point du Sable, a trapper and merchant credited with building the trading post that evolved into Chicago. With French and African parentage, du Sable hailed from Haiti and settled in what was to become Chicago with his Potawatomi wife, Kittihawa. He is honored in Chicago with Jean Baptiste Point DuSable Lake Shore Drive, DuSable Bridge on Michigan Avenue, and the DuSable Museum of African American History.
Chicago was incorporated as a town in 1833 and as a city in 1837.
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It is believed that London's Big Ben was named after Sir Benjamin Hall, First Commissioner for Works, whose name is inscribed on the bell. Others attest that the bell was named after Ben Caunt, a champion heavyweight boxer.
Moscow's Red Square's name has nothing to do with communism or with the color of many of its buildings. It derives from the word 'krasnyi', which once meant 'beautiful.'
Yes I will do that today after the rush stops. I have color codes and swatches set up, but I have to post each image so they are not fast.
Brazil's capital, Brasilia, took just 41 months to build, from 1956 to 1960.
I can stop if you are going to share something amazing!
Belgium was the first country in the world to ban landmines in 1995.
If you just go slower I will set it up should take me 20 mins or less to start.
The inventor of the web, Tim Berners-Lee, has one regret: adding the double slash "//" to URLs. In retrospect, he says, it was totally unnecessary.
Okay i will time limit myself!
Will be interesting to see what you have in mind
There is a movie called "Rubber" and it's about a car tire that kills people.
It will!
35 years after leaving school, the majority of people can still identify 90% of their classmates.
Mike Tyson became a boxer because a bully killed his pigeon. (unverified
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The original TRON movie (1982) was not considered for a visual effects Oscar because the Academy felt the filmmakers had cheated by using computers.
We reached 1k comments today!
IBM sold a smartphone with a touchscreen display input that could send emails and run third party apps already in 1994.
TOP 3! Woo hoo!
The Jonah complex is the fear of success which prevents self-actualization.
"Sesame Street" has won 167 Emmys and 8 Grammys. An estimated 77 million Americans watched the show as children.
There is a castle in Scotland that looks like a giant pineapple.
No, still top 4
Still needs 300 more comments for top 3 
Santa Muerte (Saint Death) is worshipped in Mexico by those who believe ‘god helps the good, the devil helps the bad'.
Frank can easily do that!