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TIL Around 1/3 of American teenagers have texted full nudes of themselves and could potentially be charged with the creation and distribution of child pornography.

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DXxj TIL of the Scythian Philosopher Anacharsis “Laws are spider-webs, which catch the little flies, but cannot hold the big ones.”
16wJd TIL about the Burgess Shale, a UNESCO world heritage site, and a very important fossil bed for understanding the history of life on earth. First discovered in 1909 by Charles D. Walcott, Secretary of the Smithsonian. They are located near Mt. Burgess in the Canadian Rockies.
VjZp TIL Quality of US teachers was so poor in 2001 that the average teacher only scored better than 42% of students. By 2008, it was only up to 50%. This was done by requiring qualifications such as actually having degrees in whatever they are teaching.
k9Dd TIL That Ben Franklin’s quote “Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety,” was actually about the legislature’s right to tax the citizenry to pay for, among other things, security measures.
e00Lk This week's Newsweek proclaims that "Heaven Is Real"--a neurologist concludes it after a near-death experience. But how much do we know about those experiences?