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TIL Bread goes stale 6x faster in the fridge than at room temperature

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Ypkyd TIL an elephant destroyed a house in a remote village in Bengal and then turned to head back into the forest when a baby trapped under the rubble began crying. The elephant turned back and gently removed every last bit of debris covering the baby with their trunk.
R7AP8 TIL the mesh screens on the doors of microwaves are there to keep radiation inside.
PY8Xw TIL of John Carpenter, the first person to win on "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire". He didn't use any Lifelines until the final question when he called his dad only to say that he didn't actually need any help, and just wanted to tell him that he was about to win a million dollars.
X04Nj TIL during the Civil War, the Confederates used Bermuda as a commerce center to get around the Union blockade.
Zpd8Q Today I learned that a man can survive two atomic bombs in a gap of two days and still live till the age of 93 - Tatsuo Yamaguchi.