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TIL Scientists created a clock that won’t lose a second in 13.7 billion years

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a8L1M TIL Data from the U.S. ASPE shows mothers are more likely to abuse their children than fathers. Of all child maltreatment cases, 54% of perpetrators were female, 46% male. Among female perpetrators, 86% were biological mothers, compared to 51% of male perpetrators being biological fathers.
OGOy4 TIL Jesuit missionary in China Ferdinand Verbiest won an astronomy contest against the imperial court's top astronomer. His Chinese opponent was exiled and Verbiest assumed the post. He renovated Beijing Observatory and designed what some claim to be the first ever car, among other inventions
MYOA TIL that Duke University scientists made rats able to detect infrared light by inserting a neural implant ino their brains
rn11 TIL a colleague of Steve Jobs said: “He’s a very sensitive guy. That’s one of the things that makes…his rudeness so unconscionable. I can understand why people who are thick-skinned and unfeeling can be rude, but not sensitive people.”
Z8pVY TIL of the Seasteading Institute, dedicated to creating floating, sovereign nations in international waters.