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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%.

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kOKjm TIL That Jane Snowball, a 72 year old British grandmother became the first online shopper in the world in 1982 by using her television to order groceries from her local supermarket.
oRJN7 TIL Lignum Vitae is a hard wood that was originally used to make propeller shaft bearings for ships and submarines.
0dPjy TIL the first Internet search engine was “Archie”, which was created in 1990 by Alan Emtage, a postgraduate student at McGill University in Montreal. It’s still around today and is considered a useful way to index FTP (File Transfer Protocol) archives.
R8dl TIL: There’s an 2,000 year-old analog computer called the Antikythera mechanism
Q1yp TIL Christianity is the fastest growing religion in Iran