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TIL Over the last two decades, Iran has experienced the fastest drop in fertility ever recorded in human history.

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vPOAx TIL When soul legend Wilson Picket recorded his iconic version of "Mustang Sally," he & his band rushed to hear the playback. The tape machine broke, cutting the tape into 30-40 tiny pieces. The engineer Tom Dowd carefully spliced them all back together, & that's the famous album version
lo6EK TIL that during the Mariner 4 Mars mission in 1964, the scientists were so eager to see the first ever close up images of another planet that they printed out the numerical data and hand colored it with crayons instead of waiting for a processed image.
yQdkV TIL that both humans and domestic dogs elicit a dramatic increase of oxytocin, the bonding hormone, from the other when staring into each other's eyes. Similar to a human mother and her infant.
PY4YZ TIL Canary Islands are actually named after dogs, not canaries. Their name comes from the latin "Canariae Insulae", which means "islands of dogs"
6EZE8 TIL that less than half the claims made on The Dr. Oz Show were backed by "some" evidence, and that fell to a third when the threshold was raised to "believable" evidence.