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TIL that teenage pregnancy reached its lowest point in 2010

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1ao97 TIL - GTA V is the highest grossing piece of entertainment ever created at over $6 Billion in revenue. Not just video games, but all of entertainment (more than any Marvel movie, music album, etc.)
Oo7PX TIL of Trinitite, a synthetic mineral born in the heat of a nuclear blast
6EKLZ TIL about the Burakumin (部落民, "hamlet people"/"village people", "those who live in hamlets/villages"), an outcast group at the bottom of the traditional Japanese social order that has historically been the victim of severe discrimination and ostracism.
W7M7d TIL that Madison Square Garden once held a six-day long roller skating race in 1885 that ended up killing two of the contestants. The highest-placing racers used ammonia soaked rags to keep themselves from passing out and ended up skating for over 1000 miles each by the end of the competition.
jNJPM TIL that in order to make Leia’s message to Obi-Wan sound like it has authentically aged for The Last Jedi (34 years in universe), they re-recorded it on a tape and then “beat the crap out of it”.