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TIL in addition to the more familiar AMBER Alert, Texas has two additional codes: CLEAR Alerts for abducted adults between 18-64 and Camo Alerts for missing active duty military or veterans with mental illness and/or injuries.

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ppDQ TIL the three gorges dam in China holds back so much water it slows the rotation of the earth slightly.
X0ngP TIL that in 1986 "Dear God" by XTC was released about an agnostic questioning the existence of god and a Florida radio station received a bomb threat for playing it.
MepQb TIL about the Contingency Fund for Foreign Intercourse – the earliest known black budget of the USA
wL8XM TIL every year divers replace the White Ensign on the wreck of HMS Royal Oak
BgdQb TIL that French soldiers executed an estimated 300 African troops who demanded equal pay and better living conditions during WW2 under claims of mutiny in what became known as the "Thiaroye massacre"