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TIL that teen pregnancy rates in the US are less than a quarter what they were in the 90s!

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5YkK9 TIL a feral cat with ear-tip (part of their ear is missing) means they've been caught, treated, neutered, and released
kOvRm TIL of Hellé Nice who was a nude model, a dancer and racing driver. She won the first Grand Prix for Women in 1929, beat male racing drivers of the day, broke the land speed record, appeared on magazine covers across the world and was accused of being a Nazi spy. She died in abject poverty in 1984.
D1rlD TIL :Police in West Midlands, U.K. have hung posters with photographs of staring eyes exploiting a phenomenon called “gaze detection". While humans evolved it to avoid being eaten by predators, some law enforcement agencies believe that it might actually help to deter some crimes.
gGaD TIL that Schrödinger did not believe in the possibility of a cat being simultaneously both dead and alive. His thought experiment was meant to criticize the absurdity of the existing view of quantum mechanics.
epDVL TIL about lipograms: written work in which a particular letter is intentionally omitted. Ernest Wright wrote his 1939 novel Gadsby without the letter "e," and his book was 50,000 words long.