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TIL only 20% of children and teens with mental health disorders in the US are receiving treatment

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ZpAvo TIL that the founder of the notorious “Bumfights” video series was caught trying to ship stolen baby parts out of Thailand in 2018
AN69d TIL the rate of fatal accidents due to wagons and horses in 1907 was 42 per 1 million people. For comparison, the motor vehicle fatality rate in 2023 was 120.6 per 1 million people (USA)
ekoE TIL J.R.R. Tolkien opposed holding Catholic mass in English - to the extent that he loudly responded in Latin whenever priests spoke the liturgy in English.
KOKlQ TIL about Carbon Chauvinism, a term coined by Carl Sagan which assumes that all extraterrestrial life must be made of carbon because carbon-based humans are unable to imagine life made of radically different biochemistries.
5YKWR TIL that between 1958 and 1967 Charles Lindbergh (born 1902) secretly fathered seven children with three women in Germany. He would visit the children once or twice a year but used the alias Careu Kent and they did not learn his true identity until a decade after his death.