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TIL that the last president to send their children to the DC public school system was Jimmy Carter.

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JY1P1 TIL that it is really possible to quit whatever job you have and run a blog. Even if you're a full time aerospace engineer. Inspiring!
Eop0 TIL a city in Sweden uses light therapy in bus stops to combat depression during winter when 19 hours of the day are darkness
kyD4 TIL It would take a person 59 days straight to count to one million. A man named Jeremy Harper counted to up to it for charity in 2007. He counted for 16 hours a day and raised $10,000 (one penny per number).
8DkZ TIL wacky waving inflatable arm flailing tubemen, marketed as “Air Rangers” or “Scary Dancers”, are very effective scarecrows when used to protect vineyards and orchards.
9YbLr TIL: Former member of Blink-182, Tom DeLonge, has signed a research agreement with the Army to study "inertial mass reduction, mechanical/structural meta materials, electromagnetic meta material wave guides, quantum physics, quantum communications, and beamed energy propulsion"