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TIL an Institute in Colorado created a clock so accurate it won’t lose/gain a second in 20 million years. This is the clock used for internet time!

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M7GpA TIL Disney cofounder Roy Disney spent time with his grandchildren every week at Disneyland. Roy greeted each employee by name and picked up garbage he saw on the ground to teach them "Nobody is too good to pick up trash”
VMdg4 TIL the New York Jets have never beaten the Philadelphia Eagles (American football)
M7Ab7 TIL about the Kadaknath chicken breed in India. Because of melanin pigmentation, the entire chicken is black or grey-black in colour, including plumage, legs and toenails, beak, tongue, comb and wattles; even the meat, bones, blood and organs
yd6a TIL the Vikings believed that a giant goat named Heiðrún, whose udders provided an endless supply of beer, awaited them in Valhalla upon their death
X7eD TIL that nearly 40% of people of East Asian decent lack the enzymes to properly metabolize alcohol.