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TIL that China's population actually decreased by 850,000 in 2022 as it has a birth rate of -0.6 per thousand in the said year.

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oB4lo TIL To try to combat mosquito outbreaks, Disney World monitors coops of “sentinel chickens” that are stationed around the park. If a mosquito-borne virus shows up in the chickens’ blood, Disney doubles down on its bug-slaying efforts in the area.
wL7AP TIL of David Shaw, an Australian scuba diver/aircraft pilot who recorded his own death while attempting to retrieve a 10 year old corpse from a 200+ metre deep underwater cave. The corpse belonged to a young diver who had gone missing 10 years earlier while on a dive.
GY0b5 TIL In the early 1960s The Friars Club unknowingly hosted a 5-year long elaborate card cheating scheme involving celebrities, the mafia, an accomplice peering through a hole in the ceiling, and wireless codes sent to a vibrating device hidden on the cheater at the table below. Millions were lost.
kO6v1 TIL about vanity sizing, which is the practice of assigning smaller sizes to clothing to flatter customers and encourage sales. For example, a Sears dress with a 32 inch (81 cm) bust was labeled a size 14 in the 1930s, a size 8 in the 1960s, and a size 0 in the 2010s.
xb0D TIL that a group of Owls is called a parliament.