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TIL most German schools do not have uniforms since it reminds Germans of the nazi youth

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GY4E7 TIL Ronald Reagan would write personal checks to individuals with financial struggles. He was known to drop $4,000 or $5,000 checks into the mail for certain people. He was also known to call upon the Air Force to aid in the transport of children who were experiencing medical emergencies.
wZW7 TIL There is Exactly One Known Remaining Jew in Afghanistan, He Sells Kababs
KLyG TIL the U.S. government spends billions of dollars providing GPS for the entire world to use for free
1aGBD TIL: the reason some people feel the need to pace while on the phone is because when you talk on the phone, your brain is lacking the visual feedback it usually receives from face-to-face conversation, and begins to translate emotional responses into physical movements.
X0PQP Today I learned that epigenetics can be used to predict sex across mammals at close to 100% accuracy. A notable exception are marmosets, and methods that work on other mammals can only predict marmoset sex accurately 66% of the time.