Thanatos030 t1_j664zv3 wrote on January 27, 2023 at 11:54 PM

Reply to comment by lemmepickanameffs in TIL that Haiti and Lichtenstein showed up to the 1936 Olympics with the exact same flag, which they had both been using for decades without knowledge of the similarity by Rickerpool

For the curious: https://youtu.be/DC17KOJDGtc here is the full story.

Thanatos030 t1_j09bpzt wrote on December 15, 2022 at 12:14 AM

Reply to comment by T3canolis in TIL That 1994 FIFA World Cup in USA still holds the record for the one with highest attendance by marecko

Absolutely. Your country is huge, and so there are plenty of big stadiums. 8 of your 9 stadiums that hosted tournament games had a capacity of 60k+ in 1994. In contrast, the 2006 world cup in Germany had 3 of 11 in that size, 2014's world cup had 4 out of 12 and so on.

Thanatos030 t1_izgox2u wrote on December 8, 2022 at 11:44 PM

Reply to TIL that in the UK, it is a crime to make new copies of the King James Bible. Although the text is technically in the public domain, the Crown claims Royal prerogative over the right to print, publish and distribute it. by al666in

Fun fact: the same is (was) true for Hitler's "Mein Kampf", where publishing rights of it were inherited to the German state Bavaria, until it fell into public domain in 2016, 70 years after the author's death.