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TIL: 80% of mass shooters showed no interest in violent video games, a researcher found.

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LkEx9 Til that in 2006 the U.N.E.P. launched a massive campaign to plant a billion trees. Many countries took up the challenge with China and India planting over 2 billion.
E1r0W TIL that in a Hawaiian creation myth, our universe was created from the wreckage of a previous universe, with the only survivors being octopuses.
p54e TIL There is an inscription at the Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Repository meant to last 10,000 years, warning future civilizations of the danger lurking below the mountain
0w9g5 TIL that images from NASA's Lunar Orbiter in the '60s where hi-def even by today standards, but were published as grainy and low-res to hide US spying capabilities
5Yo0n TIL the United States ranked 1st in six out of eight categories in a recent Oct 2019 Global Health Security Index measuring health security. It also ranked 2nd (behind the UK) in terms of rapid epidemic response and mitigation.