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TIL A professor at Indiana University launched a system of gaining experience points through classwork instead of giving out traditional grades.

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GAlrQ TIL that in December 1942 during World War II, President Franklin D. Roosevelt ended all voluntary enlistment into the U.S. military by men aged 18 to 37 to provide for more efficient allocation of the nation’s manpower through the draft
X0wZk TIL Ditching of social care plan is a tragedy - Dilnot
YZbx TIL Intel employs a “futurist” whose job is to determine what it would be like to live 10 or 15 years into the future
9pMX TIL in 1861 there was 45 straight days of rain in California, creating a lake 300 miles long and 20 miles wide in the Central Valley and an inland sea in Orange County.
e5b TIL there are no snakes in New Zealand