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TIL Alabama law requires teachers to lie to students and teach being gay is illegal.

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awx6A TIL about the Percentages Agreement; an agreement through which Churchill, towards the end of the WWII, basically sold Bulgaria, Romania and Hungary to Stalin, in exchange for Greece.
Zpa1v TIL that domestic dogs have developed muscles in there brow to "mimic" humans
5YLoR TIL In the '80s, the drinking age was raised from 18 to 21 nationally because Reagan passed a bill in 1984 that required states to raise their drinking age to 21. They don't have to make it 21 per se, but if they chose to opt-out, they would simply be ineligible for federal highway funding.
ZpX7B TIL: Canada's Fucked Up appeared on Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations Season 7 Episode 17 "Holiday Special" performing "Jingle Bells" (December 12, 2011)
ne1AG TIL This photo of U.S. Army code breakers trained by William Friedman and his wife Elizebeth during WW1 spells out ‘Knowledge is Power.’ By facing either forward or sideways, the soldiers formed a coded phrase utilizing Sir Francis Bacon’s biliteral cipher.