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TIL birth rates in the U.S. have dropped more than 20% since 2007

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eElg TIL Professor David Nutt was asked to step down as the government’s chief drug advisor after claiming LSD is safer than alcohol
RdD9 TIL An implant, that has reduced some epilepsy patients seizures by “half”, is heralded as the first major breakthrough in epilepsy, all while a form of medical cannabis processed into a marijuana extract that is high in CBD content that has reduced patients seizures to ZERO is buried in controversy
9lMG TIL that you can survive in space without a spacesuit for around 2 minutes, and the thing that kills you isn’t the change in pressure, it’s simply the lack of oxygen.
m7Go TIL Alec Guinness first thought Star Wars was “fairy tale rubbish”, but the film’s sense of moral good, and the studio’s doubling of his initial salary offer, appealed to him, and he agreed to take the part of Obi-Wan on the condition that he would not have to do any publicity to promote the film.
VBj70 TIL in 2018 after a man bought a storage unit for $500 from 'Storage Wars' auctioneer Dan Dotson, he discovered a safe within it contained $7.5m in cash. When the original owners of the unit found out, they first offered him $600K to return the rest of the loot, but settled on giving him $1.2m.