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TIL Take Our Daughters To Work Day started nationally in 1993 to provide girls an opportunity to see real world role models. The program expanded focus to include sons in 2003.

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jdjR TIL that more than 40% of the Dutch Wikipedia (~800.000 articles) is made up of biology articles, mostly on insects.
gMQyA TIL that the famous OK Corral shootout lasted only 30 seconds, with ten men firing an average of 3 shots per second.
LKAV TIL that a mother murdering her children is more likely to murder sons (64%) than daughters (36%), and likewise, daughters are more likely to murder their father (81%) than mother (19%). Fathers and sons are more egalitarian in their murders, killing their children / parents at about equal rates.
rNNdd TIL that the Pioneer 10 space probe passed the orbit of Neptune, the furthest planet away from the Sun at the time, on June 13, 1983. It was the first man-made object to leave the Solar System.
6EGxJ TIL that Calvin & Hobbes are based on the philosophers John Calvin & Thomas Hobbes