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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.

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wLxEJ TIL Tyrannosaurus Rex lived closer to the making of the movie Jurassic Park (1993) than they did to the existence of Stegosaurus.
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R7kla TIL in 1989 murderer Michael Godwin had his sentence reduced to life imprisonment after five years awaiting the electric chair but was electrocuted accidentally while sitting naked on a steel toilet seat in his cell. While trying to fix his television set, he bit into a wire and was electrocuted.
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54J8 TIL that in 1959, an experimental nuclear reactor meltdown in Simi Valley (35 miles from Los Angeles) released an estimated 458 times more radiation than the Three Mile Island incident. The site remains radioactive to this day, which is surrounded by 500,000 people within 10 miles