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TIL: According to the American Survey Center, the 1996, “A National Strategy to Prevent Teen Pregnancy", by the department of health worked and teenage pregnancies have declined since then. However, Gen Z and millennial romance is drastically lower than Boomers and Gen X at the same age.

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R7Qd1 TIL I learned that Drake Bell moved to Mexico after finding out he was popular there, changed his name to "Drake Campana", posts on social media in Spanish and also sings in the language
x6LMg TIL two shows on FOX featured characters with similar names: That '70s Show had Eric Forman, while House had Eric Foreman. There was no crossover, and the episodes didn't air in the same season, but Kurtwood Smith was a supporting actor in the former (98-06) and a guest actor in the latter (2007)
kO5X5 TIL the gopher tortoise is a species of turtle native to the southeastern United States. The gopher tortoise is seen as a keystone species because it digs deep burrows that provide shelter for at least 360 other animal species, often preserving their lives during conflagrations.
9OWr TIL a valley settlement in Norway that lives in shadow for nearly half of every year has installed giant mirrors on an adjacent mountain to redirect sunlight into the town’s square, all based on a plan that was thought up 100 years ago.
YpA1W TIL that in 1964, three physicists who just got their PhDs were tasked with developing a working design for a nuclear weapon using only unclassified information. The goal is to see if a country can develop a nuclear weapon without aid. They accomplished it within 2 and a half years.