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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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Lk8BZ TIL The United States Supreme Court has declared tomatoes are legally vegetables, not fruit. (Nix v. Hedden, 1893)
x6kLb TIL Americans eat 3 billion pizzas per year and spend $38 billion annually on pizza. The average American also eats an average of 46 slices of pizza per year which amounts to consuming 23 pounds of pizza annually
x6B4B TIL about the Capitol Hill mystery soda machine a vending machine in Capitol Hill, Seattle, notable for its "mystery" buttons which dispensed unusual drink flavors. It is unknown who restocked the machine, which originally caused the development of a local legend that the machine was haunted.
lYVr TIL that Jim Carrey’s first appearance on US TV (age 21, The Tonight Show) consisted solely of an over-the-top Elvis impersonation with a freaky ending
gMBa9 TIL: Massive ant swarms on the sidewalk are not ants gathering food or establishing a colony but actually "large scale" territorial ant wars between two colonies