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TIL frozen carrots can spark and catch fire in the microwave

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1alLV TIL that Alexander of Greece (Greece's 4th King) died aged 27 after a mob of monkeys attacked and bit him as he was trying to break a fight between one of the palace monkeys and his German Shepherd dog.
YAvG TIL The Filet o’ Fish was invented so Catholics could eat at McDonald’s on Fridays.
r1ed TIL that the guy who offered the 100,000 Jews a safe haven in the Dominican republic was a bloodthirsty dictator
b95nj TIL People with arteriosclerosis have pimple-like growths, called plaques, inside their artery walls. These pimples are stuffed with a kind of pus. When a large, ugly yellow plaque pops open, it attracts red blood cells that form a clot, blocking the artery and causing a heart attack or stroke.
oRxbW TIL: That children can also be affected by dementia, and that it is more common then conditions like cystic fibrosis. Affecting approximately 1 in every 2,800 babies