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TIL of a U.S. Congressional bill introduced in 2015 to limit the naming of bills with overly contrived or complicated names for the sole purpose of making an acronym. It was called the "Accountability and Congressional Responsibility On Naming Your Motions" Act, or the ACRONYM Act.

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eEX6 TIL Astronaut Ed Mitchell said of his experience on the moon in 1971: “From out there on the moon, international politics look so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out and say, ‘Look at that, you son of a bitch.’”
9wdbG TIL airlines in Japan list where customers with babies are sitting on the seat map so you can be better informed as you choose your seat.
mxrrM TIL there are more endangered snails than any other bird, mammal, reptile, amphibian and fish put together.
R7nZ9 TIL that in the Battle of Shiloh there was a strange phenomenon of soldiers having wounds that glow in the dark, because they the wounds were infected with a type of luminescent bacteria.