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TIL the Senate and House both have a chaplain that leads or invites someone to lead prayer every session opening.

Read more chaplain.house.gov

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PmLJ TIL there’s a hotline filmmakers can call for science advice with the goal of helping filmmakers incorporate accurate science into their films
LlQr TIL the Korean military created a professional StarCraft team so their country’s top player could continue to compete while he was in the Air Force.
WkDmL TIL that Lehman Brother before going bankrupt paid its CEO nearly half a billion dollars in total compensation from 1993 to 2007, and fired him in 2008 only after declaring bankruptcy.
KOGVR TIL that Lew Alcindor (Kareem Abdul-Jabbar) was the reason why the NCAA banned the slam dunk from 1967-1975.
4LjJ TIL - there is a woman going around the world using human-power alone. She is rowing from Japan to Canada starting 0900 tomorrow, and it is all for charity.