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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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Q0K6 TIL the US is seeking a new law requiring foreign institutions to report all assets owned by Americans which has lead to more people renouncing their citizenship in the last quarter of 2013 than the entire years of 2006-2009 combined.
69XeW TIL: Papers Found on a Union Officer's Body Reportedly Ordering Confederate Capital Richmond Burned Resulted in the Scandal Known as the Dahlgren Affair
8awNZ TIL that Hitler considered that Islam was perfectly suited to the "Germanic" temperament and would have been more compatible to the Germans than Christianity.
DQKBp TIL of Crayola's Law, which states: The number of Crayola crayon colors doubles every 28 years.
8naa TIL That in 1941, Willamette University’s football team played a game at the University of Hawaii on December 6th for the post season. The following day, December 7th, the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. The team was conscripted into the Army to help fight a possible Japanese invasion of the island.