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TIL Children with an actively engaged father perform much better in school, some data shows that they are 33% percent less likely to repeat a class and 43% more likely to get As in school.

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oZvK Today I learned that when maverick Scottish Psychiatrist R.D. Laing faced a naked schizophrenic woman rocking silently to and fro in a padded cell, he took off his own clothes and sat next to her, rocking to the same rhythm until she spoke for the first time in months.
R5dK6 TIL the oldest running automobile, built in 1884, was sold in 2011 for $4.6 million.
gMyrA TIL about Italian serial killer Leonarda Cianciulli, who chopped up her victims with an axe and turned them into soap and tea cakes
GAK67 TIL: There was a study spanning 18 years that compared sexual activity across social demographic variables. It found that internet usage, race, religion, etc did not matter as much. The biggest factor for men was employment. Men who were students or unemployed were likely to be sexually inactive.
WkvN9 TIL During the 1988 Monaco GP, F1 Legend Ayrton Senna crashed thru driver error while leading on lap 67, Senna was so annoyed with himself instead of heading to the pits he walked home and contemplated his failure and only returned when his team was packing up.