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TIL that microwave power settings don't actually reduce the power; rather, they cycle the microwave energy on/off (i.e. 50% power means the energy is on half the time, not on all the time at half p... (www.tastingtable.com)
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TIL about Bart the Bear. He was a trained grizzly bear who starred in numerous movies and served as the Ambassador of Vital Ground, an organization dedicated to preserving threatened wildlife habit... (www.vitalground.org)
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TIL that record producer Paul A. Rothchild, who produced the Doors' first five albums, left during the production of their 1971 album "L.A. Woman" after disliking "Love Her Madly,” calling it “cock... (en.wikipedia.org)
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TIL; "Hello" came to prominence as a greeting with the invention of the telephone (wikipedia.org)
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TIL Samuel L Jackson was an usher for MLK jr.s funeral (www.watchtheyard.com)
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TIL that actor and Chicago native David Arquette owns the rights to BOZO and plans on reviving the show (www.slashfilm.com)
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TIL: In April this year, Dubai once again broke the record for the most expensive license plate in the world, when "7" was sold for $15 million at auction. Some countries such as Hong Kong (where "... (www.cbsnews.com)
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TIL Sudden cardiac arrest is the leading medical cause of death in college athletes, especially among males, African Americans, and basketball players (newsroom.uw.edu)
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TIL that bodies left in wet, cold conditions (often large bodies of water) go through a process of saponification, and fat deposits turn into soap. (www.sciencedirect.com)
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TIL that the xxx rating in america has never actually been recognised by the mpaa, and it was invented by adult movie studios to imply their films were more hardcore than normal x-rated films (en.wikipedia.org)
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TIL: in 1275, the count of Holland exempted the residents of the tiny fishing village of Amsterdam from tolls, attracting large numbers of merchants and putting it on a path to develop into a major... (onh.nl)
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TIL 98% of passengers involved in vehicle crashes in Dubai were not wearing seat belts (carinsurance.ae)
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TIL that public transportation has an economic return of 5:1 (www.apta.com)
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TIL that Sharks are older than Trees - Sharks have been around for at least 400 million years and have survived all five global mass extinctions. Fossil evidence shows that the earliest sharks evol... (www.zmescience.com)
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TIL Teófilo Stevenson, widely regarded as the greatest Olympic boxer of all time, was offered a million dollars to defect from Cuba and fight heavyweight world champion Muhammad Ali. Stevenson decl... (www.irishtimes.com)
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TIL the biohazard symbol didn't symbolize or refer to anything originally. It's simply a shape that was picked as being symmetrical, hard to mistake, and easy to remember (www.florenceinferno.com)
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TIL about Jimmy Robinson, a US Air Force Piloted that died (marked MIA officially) after damage sustained flying through the mushroom cloud of Ivy Mike, the first thermonuclear bomb detonation. The... (www.arlingtoncemetery.net)
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TIL: Dogs that get fed once daily, have better outcomes across 9 categories of health conditions compared with dogs that eat more frequently. (collaborate.princeton.edu)
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TIL that in Vermont, an apple pie is legally required to be served with a glass of cold milk, a slice of half an ounce of cheddar cheese, or vanilla ice cream. (en.wikipedia.org)
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TIL a Hungarian psychologist wrote a book on how to raise a genius. He proposed his ideas to a teacher. They married and raised three chess grandmasters, two of them became record-breakers and one ... (en.wikipedia.org)
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TIL Abu Dhabi has a 75 year lease on all of the parking meters in Chicago. In a decade they’ve already made back their investment. (www.bettergov.org)
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TIL: Every year, about 30,000 people in the US lose a finger. The two most common causes: doors and power tools. (www.ishn.com)
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TIL about Spruce Creek Airport in Florida. A combined airport/neighborhood where every house connects to the runway via their own taxiway. (en.wikipedia.org)
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TIL Tesla is the only major American auto manufacturer not represented by a union in the US (en.wikipedia.org)
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TIL that Sir Winston Churchill was such a big lover of the Italian blue cheese Gorgonzola that during WW2 he forbid British troops to bomb the city of Gorgonzola and its dairies. (en.wikipedia.org)
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