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TIL 84% of American vegetarians return to eating meat

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Or8a TIL Bing Crosby was a lifelong golfer. He died at the age of 74 immediately after finishing 18 holes. His last words were reportedly “That was a great game of golf, fellas.”
jN1Dv TIL that the microwave oven was invented by accident. In 1945, Percy Spencer, an American self-taught engineer, was working in a lab testing magnetrons, the high-powered vacuum tubes inside radars that produced microwaves, where he noticed a peanut butter candy bar in his pocket had begun to melt
1WO TIL 5.93million YEARS of game play have been clocked in WoW
566D TIL a 17 foot statue of Vladimir Lenin has been removed from a rooftop in NYC’s East Village, where it stood for 20 years. The statue had been positioned to face Wall Street, the emblem of capitalism.
nWJn9 TIL six marine biologists scientifically analyzed 202 episodes of Shark Week based on 15+ variables. They concluded the episodes were "full of incorrect information," were "wildly misleading" about the field of shark research, and only 6 of them provided any actionable tips regarding conservation.