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TIL that teens are more likely to engage in risky behavior when they are in a group than when they are alone, but having just one slightly older adult in the group decreases the risk-taking tendencies.

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95JM TIL that according to a 2013 study, practitioners of BDSM (Bondage, Discipline & Sado-Masochism) have a better mental health overall than practitioners of “vanilla” sex.
neNWd TIL Australian opium farmers found mysterious crop circles in their fields. The culprits were wallabies who got high and bounced around in circles
7PZL TIL Kung Fu expert in China beat up mob of 50 people trying to evict him.
1pr8 TIL in 1994, Howard Stern talked a caller out of jumping off the George Washington Bridge as a nation listened
mD5y TIL that Abraham Lincoln suffered from a lifelong “melancholy,” a condition we now call clinical depression. His suffering was so severe, that his community had to put him under a “suicide watch.”