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TIL Rats love driving tiny cars, even when they don’t get treats

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B61e TIL that Google maps won’t give driving directions in South Korea, due to a law that restricts the use of maps.
1KnP TIL the official definition of a second is 9,192,631,770 cycles of the Cesium atoms resonant frequency, and the NIST-F1 cesium atomic clock can produce a frequency so precise that its time error per day is about 0.03 nanoseconds, meaning the clock would lose one second in 100 million years
KYgm4 TIL Bob Ballard, who discovered the wreck of the Titanic, wants to repaint it aid its preservation.
XmMP TIL that Japanese macaque wash their food in saltwater before they eat in order to both clean it and enhance the taste. They also make snowballs for fun.
VDpp TIL of Emmett Till, a black teenager who was murdered after allegedly whistling at a white woman. He was so badly disfigured that the only way he could be identified was through his ring. Years later, the woman in question admitted that she fabricated parts of her story.