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TIL that the name of the student organization and high school club Future Homemakers of America was changed to Family, Career and Community Leaders of America in 1999.

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e0RLE TIL the Catholic Church has accepted the Big Bang theory and Darwinian evolution since 1950.
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ej5n TIL the Nazis had helicopters, and even launched them from battleships. BMW was going to mass produce a battlefield version, but the factory was destroyed in a bombing raid
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