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

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e0YML TIL that Christmas celebrations were illegal in New England in parts of the 17th century, because the Puritans found no scriptural justification for celebrating it and associated the celebration with paganism and heavy drinking
p8wrG TIL that the world is facing a global sand crisis because sand and gravel mining greatly exceeds natural renewal rate.
QJZbM TIL The Crab Rave meme has an official videogame coming out made by the creator of the video himself.????????????
Ork1 TIL that Eurasian magpies are self aware and highly intelligent, which would explain their organised trolling of my dog on a daily basis
KAKB TIL Google pays Mozilla $300Million/year to be the default search engine in Firefox