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TIL that after a wave of teen suicides in the 1980s, the media, following guidelines from CDC, carefully and voluntarily avoided sensationalizing the deaths and to a large extent stopped reporting on them

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4kkX6 TIL a new lifestyle, Tang Ping, or lying flat, started in China in 2021. It adheres to doing the bare minimum to get by in life.
vPmgK TIL the “Subway smell” emanating from Subway restaurants is due to the specific combination of chemicals released from baking bread and cookies, Italian herbs, vinegar, and cheese, and it can be replicated at home.
781kO TIL Despite their name, Screech Owls don't really screech. Their call is more of a soft cooing resembling a horse whinny.
5V9rP TIL In Scotland, two students went to an art exhibition and left a pineapple on a table to see if it would become art. When they returned four days later, the pineapple was still there and had been covered with a glass display case
ymel TIL Scientists in the Netherlands are developing an ocean cleaning system which uses the ocean’s currents and a barrier to remove plastic waste. A 100 km long system will be deployed in 2020 to clean up the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.