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TIL The U.S. Congress has introduced a bill stating ALL persons between the ages of 18 and 25 are obligated to serve in the military for 2 years in the event of either a declaration of war or national emergency.

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x66Bo TIL that the British MI5 hired an astrologer after they learned that Hitler supposedly used astrology to influence his actions. However it was later known that the predictions of Hitler's astrologer were extremely inaccurate and Hitler himself thought of astrology as 'complete nonsense'.
ne0RY TIL about SOLO-TREC, a submarine that NASA invented that can basically generate infinite energy.
MabV TIL that the Twenty-seventh Amendment was ratified after an undergraduate student at Texas University wrote a paper on the amendment. His instructor gave him a ‘C’ calling his idea “unrealistic”. The student then started a letter writing campaign to State Legislatures to get it passed.
m0Wp TIL that the U.S. Government believes that very high quality counterfeit United States one hundred-dollar bills have been made by unknown organizations or governments, and that most likely most of these notes were produced in North Korea.
XEMMX TIL that Natalie Portman is a published researcher in Psychology. Her first scientific paper was co-authored while still in high school. It was entered into the prestigious Intel Science Talent Search and made it all the way to the semi-finals.