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TIL of Ye's Optical Lattice Clock. It loses one second every 15 billion years, making it the world's most accurate clock.

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epRPD TIL: More than 1,800 antique papyrus scrolls from 79 AD were preserved by being carbonized due to the eruption of Mount Vesuvius - some contained hitherto lost works and the efforts to read them are still on-going
b1MZ TIL that Utah is the largest consumer of paid internet pornography in the United States
LKJp TIL there is a word: “Mamihlapinatapai”, from the Yaghan language, which is considered the most succint and hardest word to translate: it means: “a look shared by two people, each wishing that the other would initiate something that they both desire but which neither wants to begin.”
alJo TIL: Rolling Paper company RAW has a separate portion of their company dedicated to humanitarian efforts. This includes digging wells, rebuilding/refurbishing older wells, leading community initiatives in rainwater collection, and sustainable year-round harvesting, just to name a few
jeaM TIL that not only was Albert Einstein unfaithful to both of his wives, he married his cousin Elsa the same year he divorced his first wife. He also thought about marrying Elsa’s daughter instead of her.