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TIL that 71 percent of Americans age 17 to 24 are ineligible to join the military, primarily because they are too overweight or too poorly educated, or they have a record of serious crime or drug abuse.

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xPWb TIL that it takes 10,000 to 170,000 years for the light, to go from the core of the sun to the surface
v1l6K TIL Italian law forbids school cafeterias from serving deep-fried foods
9YKbB TIL Queen Margrethe II of Denmark is a big Lord of the Rings fan, and under the pseudonym ‘Ingahild Grathmer’ helped to illustrate the danish version of the book
LQMGv TIL New York City implemented a bird-killing program to reduce bird strikes at LaGuardia Airport. Over 70,000 birds have been culled since Flight 1549's ditching in the Hudson River in 2009.
dDEbj TIL the man often credited as the first person to synthesize heroin, Felix Hoffman, did so only 11 days after first synthesizing Aspirin while working for Bayer