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TIL In Colorado, more than 5,000 minors have married since the year 2000.

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4QYb TIL that in 2010 alone, a peer reviewed study found that reductions in fine particle pollution and ozone pollution achieved by the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990 avoided more than 160,000 deaths and prevented 13 million lost workdays.
d8MD8 TIL of B95 or Moonbird. A 21 Year Old Red Knot Who Has Flown the Same Distance From the Earth to the Moon and Back in His Lifetime. He is Also the Oldest Known Example of the Species Earning Him the Title of the "Toughest 4 Oz on the Planet"
d8Drd In this week's Today I Learned, National Geographic photographer and conservation filmmaker Clay Bolt explains how a bumblebee's buzz could be considered a superpower—and one far more beneficial than any run-of-the-mill, comic book variety.
WR0A TIL 84% of vegetarians go back to eating meat
R5v6j TIL about The Dancing Plague of 1518 - A case of mass hysteria in Strasbourg where hundreds of people danced uncontrollably for days, leading to several deaths.