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TIL: The No Child Left Behind Act requires schools to provide contact information for students to military recruiters

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b9MR4 TIL that the United States granted the Philippines independence in 1946.
v4LR TIL - “Wierd” Al Yankovic was Valedictorian of his senior class, where he also founded the Volcano Worshippers club, “which did absolutely nothing. We started the club just to get an extra picture of ourselves in the yearbook.”
grMD9 TIL the Amstrad CPC port of Contra (Gryzor) had a troll ending where your actions during the game caused the earth to explode.
pR1G TIL Adjusting for inflation, Gone with the Wind from 1939 is the highest grossing movie of all time, not Avatar.
wLVro TIL four-legged animals like horses and dogs don't have backwards knees. Those joints are actually their ankles, which bend in the same direction as our ankles do.