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TIL that after introducing optional screening in 2000, Iceland has virtually eliminated Down's syndrome in newborns

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XrKQ TIL: Until 2009, India accounted for more than half of the world’s polio cases. It has now had three consecutive years without new polio cases.
ErD0 TIL that over the last 35 years, a portion of the scientific community involved in researching domestic violence has been actively concealing and misrepresenting the evidence for “Gender Symmetry”: the fact that women and men perpetrate partner violence at comparable rates [PDF]
W7PN TIL Painted Turtles hibernate in cold northern climates with the help of a type of antifreeze in their blood. During hibernation, they stop breathing altogether.
ZDaB TIL that you’re 3 times as likely to get a virus from a church website than you are from a pornography website.
eVYL TIL: A man submitted a patent in 1979 that almost perfectly resembles an iPod. He even went as far as predicting a need for DRM and a way to distribute the music.