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TIL that the first atomic clock, built in 1955, was so accurate it would lose only about one second every 300 years making it more precise than the Earth’s rotation.

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w8JJ TIL in 2004 Volvo introduced a concept car that was built for women without a hood and dent-resistant bumpers
Brole TIL the Dyatlov pass mystery, one of worlds biggest mysteries, in which 9 Russian hikers died in the northern Ural Mountains due to strange and inexplicable injuries, was recently SOLVED after 60 years.
P1PXZ TIL the real jack sparrow was muslim, and he changed his name to yusuf reis
4wAb TIL that babies will instinctively hold their breath underwater until the age of six months.
9P4r TIL that an executive defeated Bill Gates 35 out of 37 in a video game, when they met again a month later Gates “won or tied every game. He had studied the game until he solved it.”