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TIL the Department of Education has a S.W.A.T team

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OGZR4 TIL Muhammad is the most popular name in the world, by 2014 it was estimated to have been given to 150 million men and boys.
wLvvM TIL: Coca-cola identifies heavy users of its products as anyone who consumes more than 1,000 sodas a year. This represents 20% of total customers. Coke focuses its campaign efforts on these users as it's easier to manipulate them rather than try to get the other 80% to consume more.
9VRQ TIL that Mao ordered billions of sparrows to be killed, this exacerbated a famine that killed more 20 million people.
r7jy TIL after being caught by casino owners and prosecuted in court for cheating, the Hyland card counting team was acquitted of all charges after the judge ruled that the players’ conduct was not cheating, but merely the use of intelligent strategy.
wodaE TIL In 1969, Nixon appointed a Space Task Group which presented recommendations including building an Earth-orbiting space station, a lunar-orbiting space station, a base on the lunar surface, and a human expedition to Mars. They were too expensive, so Nixon directed NASA to build the Space Shuttle