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TIL: In 2010, New Jersey lost $400 million in federal education reform money due to submitting data from the wrong school year. This lost them 4.8 points, making them fall 3 points short of receiving federal aid which went to Ohio instead. People have called this a "stunning $400 million mistake"

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MePWa TIL Radio Caledonia was a Nazi run WW2 propaganda station that aired in Scotland 1940-1942. Broadcast from Germany, Goebbels hoped it would turn listening Scots against the English. The message that Scotland would be vastly preferable to "an England run by a war-mongering Churchill" didn't fly,
XED8j TIL in 1984, the creation of an atomic priesthood to generate a religious mythology involving genetically engineered cats that would glow in the presence of radioactive waste was proposed to warn future generations of the danger and location of radioactive waste in New Mexico.
E1kJp TIL the Comoro blue vanga (Cyanolanius madagascarinus comorensis) is considered a subspecies of the blue vanga by ornithologists. It is found only on the Comoros Islands and is recognized by it exceptionally vivid blue bill, head and back and snow-white throat and under parts. (see pic in comments)
9w81m TIL that the Eurotunnel between England and France has trains that are basically roads on wheels, allowing passengers to walk in between cars and busses in a fully enclosed space.
rVZ4 TIL that EA hired people to portray Christians to accuse EA of being the Anti-Christ for the videogame Dante’s Inferno as a marketing scheme.