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TIL that US teen crime is now at lowest level since 1960.

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nWBLb TIL that dogs, bears, seals and racoons all belong to the Caniformia, which is a suborder of Carnivora that consist on "dog-like" carnivorans.
E1lGd TIL the Veery, a small bird in the Thrush family, is better at predicting upcoming Atlantic hurricane seasons than our best meteorological models.
Ogka TIL that Sesame Street’s Count von Count penchant for numbers is not only a pun on his name, but vampire legends often indicate arithomania, or a fixation on counting small objects.
Lrn9 TIL Britain used the Australian outback as a nuclear testing ground, exploding seven Atomic Bombs at Maralinga in the south-west Australian outback.
N7amE TIL of the band Grouplove who was the first band in the United States to be certified climate friendly