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TIL that there is a high school in Philadelphia that is allowed to confer degrees as well as high school diplomas. Some graduates are granted a Bachelor of Arts at graduation.

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Ny8b TIL there is a man who gained the ability to recall the weather from every day hes been alive and do complex calculations after being hit in the head with a baseball.
QJwkd TIL the Earth's atmosphere extends well past the moon.
6OE8 TIL the United States Air Force Space Command commissioned Bill Nye to make a video for the Air Force called “Hollywood vs. EMP” so that the people who must deal with real EMP would not be confused by fiction.
oBYjL TIL that for Cleopatra, the time of construction of the pyramids in Giza is more remote than our present day.
rKnw TIL that when the 1937 Marijuana Tax Act was passed, only the birdseed industry successfully lobbied against it by arguing that hemp seeds gave birds shinier feathers than other seeds. Because of this, birdseed producers are legally allowed to import hemp seeds into the US (deactivated) today.