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TIL Harry Truman created the school lunch program in 1946 in response to the high number of military draftees that were rejected because of malnutrition.

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DQedr TIL: It is illegal for a private company to deliver a letter without using a USPS stamp and it being ink cancelled, even if the USPS does not handle the letter.
b9eQa TIL humans used to sleep in two shifts. The first sleep of four hours began about two hours after dusk. It is then followed by a waking period of one or two hours where they performed some work, a hobby, relaxation, or sex. And finally, a second sleep followed that lasted until dawn.
P1l1V TIL Nuclear Winter is almost impossible in modern times because of lower warhead yields and better city planning, making the prerequisite firestorms extremely unlikely
OGQx6 Today I learned that President Glover Cleveland had a secret surgery removing a tumor in his mouth on a yacht because he worried that news of him having cancer would effect the stock market.
KanJ TIL With funds from ALS 2014 Ice Bucket Challenge, scientists found a gene called NEK1 and can now develop gene therapy to treat inherited ALS