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TIL: Engagement rings are considered a "conditional gift" in some states and can be revoked if the engagement is broken

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rXGd TIL:In 2011, 80 percent of all antibiotics sold by weight in the United States were used for meat and poultry production.
VMO7Q TIL Happiness and life satisfaction among United States adolescents, which increased between 1991 and 2011, suddenly declined after 2012. By 2016-17, both adults and adolescents were reporting significantly less happiness than they had in the 2000s.
wmZY TIL Christopher Walken’s speaking style goes back to childhood, when he changed punctuation in his textbooks with a marker to be where he wanted the periods, commas, and exclamation points to be.
m1rDv TIL an analysis of the lyrics of more than 12,000 English-language songs released between 1980-2020 (from the genres of rap, country, pop, R&B & rock) found that lyrics have become simpler, angrier, more repetitive & more self-obsessed over that period of time.
BrLvD TIL of the Voyager Golden Record, which was launched with Voyager 1 and designed to represent Earth. It includes the sound of whales, Beethoven's compositions, a printed president from President Carter, a woman's brainwaves while thinking about love, the sound of waves crashing, among other sounds.