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TIL that the, “No Child Left Behind Act” requires high schools to give out personal information to military recruiters.

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9J1B TIL that during the Iraq war in 2003, the U.S. Military planned to attach chickens atop Hum-Vees in order to detect chemical weapons. The project was named, Operation Kuwaiti Field Chicken (KFC). However, the project failed when 41 of the 43 chickens died within a week of their arrival.
v1NQD TIL In the Nazi Enigma code, a letter couldn't be represented by itself in the coded transmission. This flaw was exploited by Allied code-breakers and was a key part of the "Bombe" Enigma decoding machine designed by Alan Turing and engineered by Harold Keen.
m1xZM TIL an author created a 1000 page book that is made up of a single run on sentence.
rdy1 TIL that there is a positive correlation between vitamin D and testosterone levels in men. The more sunlight exposure a man gets the more likely it is that he has elevated testosterone levels.
9eyD TIL that a man died after drinking $54,000 worth of methamphetamine, after mistaking it for fruit juice.