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TIL America is still declared a “State of Emergency”

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MeYbV TIL the reason why Amish grow beards but shave their mustaches is to represent their pacifism. The Amish associate mustaches with the military and thus they shave their mustaches to show they would never serve in warfare. The Amish who did serve did so in the Civilian Service Corps.
l7YmB TIL that the Amish can and do use electricity - solar panels. Their belief system isn't that they can't use electricity, it's that they don't want to rely on outside technology like a city electric grid.
AWDd TIL the US military modified a C130 with rockets so it could land in and take off from a football stadium, in Iran, to rescue hostages.
rRpr4 TIL a chimpanzee war broke out between one tribe and a separatist faction, known as the Gombe war.
AD5gn TIL when Stan Lee was designing Spider-Man, his publisher told him "Stan, that is the worst idea I have ever heard. First of all, people hate spiders, so you can’t call a book Spider-Man. Secondly he can’t be a teenager—teenagers can only be sidekicks. And third, he can’t have personal problems.