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TIL that natural disasters increase fertility rates

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XEyPP TIL Breakdancing has become an Olympic sport. “Breaking” officially added to the medal events program at the 2024 Paris Games.
9Y8eX TIL of the unsolved Keddie murders where a woman living in a rural California cabin was killed with her teenage son and his friend, and her daughter kidnapped, while younger boys were left sleeping in an adjacent room. The remains of the kidnapped daughter were found 3 years later after a tip-off
E1QkP TIL Botswana's currency is named Pula which literally means "rain" in their official language. This is because rain is very scarce in Botswana — home to much of the Kalahari Desert — and therefore valuable and a blessing.
rRbVx TIL of Rinderpest: A virus seen in cows and other ungulates that's been totally eradicated throughout the entire world.
aVwb TIL that Nestle paid $2,238 for 600 million litres of water at one Ontario well in 2010, or 0.0000004 cents a litre.