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TIL mothers are twice as likely to directly mistreat their children than fathers.

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0g7A TIL During WWII more people were killed building V2 rockets than were killed by the rockets themselves
oWZR TIL That 27th amendment to the US Constitution, which added limits to how Congress gives themselves pay raises, took 202 years and 7 months to be ratified. All 26 others took an average of 1 year and 8 days.
xjOo TIL within 10 million years a star known as Gliese 710 will pass within one light-year of the Solar System, possibly causing a massive gravitational disturbance
XWJE TIL an MIT grad student submitted his thesis developing the theory of orbital rendezvous which would be critical to the Apollo program. It opens, “In the hopes that this work may in some way contribute to their exploration of space. If only I could join them in their exciting endeavors.” Buzz Aldrin
e7Ek TIL That Ethiopia sent a battalion of soldiers to the Korean War. At the end of the conflict, they were the only contingent with no prisoners in North Korea, because no Ethiopian ever surrendered.