Fred's Fun Fact: American Flag

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's not political, by the way, but let's just let's

(00:01):
use something patriotics, shall we Yeah, something patriotic, So if
you're under the age of sixty, the American flag has
always had the same iconic design, fifty stars and thirteen stripes. However,
the United States didn't include fifty states until Hawaii joined
in nineteen fifty nine, which then necessitated a new flag design.
So a high schooler named Robert Haft submitted a design

(00:25):
as part of a class assignment. And he was the
one that you know had the alternating five and six
in the adds up to fifty the flag that we
know now, and he sent it a prototype that he made.
The President chose his flag to become the official national symbol. However,
his teacher only gave him a B minus on it. Real,
so his teacher said, this is average, and the President said,

(00:48):
oh no, that's the flag exactly. Take that, teach. What
do you know, teacher? Right? What do you know? More
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