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TIL in 2009, Colorado initiated its Family Planning Initiative to provide low-to-no cost birth control to 68 family clinics around the state. Between 2009 and 2013, the state’s teen birth rate dropped by 40%.

Wkywo TIL That Dung beetles are currently the only known non-human animal to navigate and orient themselves using the Milky Way
1aK0O TIL Meilleurs Ouvriers de France , is an honorary title given to the best Chefs in France, since 1920 only 200 have been awarded, the candidates show high technical skills : Pollack in one dish has to be pierced in four places by Herring Lardons, the latter imparts its saltiness into the Pollack.
9wV9m TIL monster EXTREME UV lithography machines make AI chips with a laser burning hotter than the sun spitting out molten drops of tin to create plasma that emits tiny UV waves which then hits a bunch of vacuum mirrors for focus before landing on a photomask for printing on silicon 🤯
6djl TIL that the UK, for economic reasons, sent up to 150,000 poor children to Canada, New Zealand and other parts of the Commonwealth from 1869 to the 1970s, often telling them their parents had died, and telling parents that their children had been placed for adoption elsewhere in the UK
E1Ag0 TIL when music gives you chills it is called frission, and it only happens to about 50% of people. Studies have linked frission to dopamine release, and have found that those that experience frission are more likely to have more intense emotions.