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TIL that 1 in 13 American Kids are on Psych Meds

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Z8ZaQ TIL Iceland has a near 100% termination rate in pregnancies where the mother knows the child will be born with Down's Syndrome.
GY7EN TIL of the concealed shoe index. For hundreds of years, people hid a shoe in their houses during construction for good luck or to ward off evil spirits. The Northampton Museum in England created the concealed shoe index, and there are approximately 1,900 finds on the index today.
BKpD TIL Brooke Shields’ father’s family paid her mother a sum of money to abort her. Her mother took the money but refused to honor the agreement.
oBQ58 TIL Peter Ivers, the artist that wrote and recorded the song "In Heaven" for David Lynch's film "Eraserhead," was bludgeoned to death with a hammer at his home in LA. He was 36 years old. His murder remains unsolved.
ADjoo TIL that 14.7% of men that had a vasectomy reported pain in the testicles (PVPS) that didn't go away at least 7 months after the procedure, with 0.9% describing the pain as "quite severe and noticeably affecting their quality of life".