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TIL frozen carrots can spark and catch fire in the microwave

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YpgG7 TIL that Steve Jobs named his company "Apple" partially because he wanted it to appear in the phone book before Atari, his former workplace.
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OGMK1 TIL a dozen intersex athletes competed in the Olympics, usually discovered after the onset of sex verification testing
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gWQ7 TIL that John C. Mcginley (the actor who played Dr. Cox in Scrubs) uses girl names to refer to all his real friends. He also uses Cox’ signature whistles in regular conversation, calling it “a bad habit”.