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TIL microwaves can’t actually melt ice (explaining why defrosting is so slow)

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GYAX1 Wagyu's fat has a melting point lower than the average human body temperature, it literally melts in your mouth.
Oag1 TIL 65 nations refused to participate in the 1980 Summer Olympic Games to protest the 1979 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. Afghanistan wasn’t one of them, sending 11 athletes to compete.
9wlpp TIL in 2001, Disneyland tried to re-theme their aging "Submarine Voyage" attraction around Atlantis: The Lost Empire, but the movie flopped. They tried again with Treasure Planet, but that was a flop too. They finally succeeded with Finding Nemo in 2005.
8eg1V TIL that there are still estimated to be 100,000 - 200,000 followers of the ancient religion of Zoroastrianism, which is considered an early precursor to the abrahamic religions such as Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.
5YlA8 TIL "Jazz" was originally "Jass" but the term was changed because children and some adults could not resist the temptation to scratch the letter "J" from the posters