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TIL that the "microwave-safe" label on plastic containers only means they won't melt or warp, and doesn't guarantee that chemicals won't leach into your food when heated

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awVGA TIL the girl who played Robin Williams' teenage daughter in Mrs. Doubtfire was kicked out of school for missing too many classes during filming. Robin Williams then wrote a letter to the principal 'respectfully requesting' he reconsider. She didn't get back in, but the school did frame the letter
8JwP TIL nearly 42% of Americans said they didn’t take a single vacation day during 2014
logPK TIL Made up of women, the 588th Russian Night Bomber Regiment flew missions behind German lines, in planes built of wood and canvas with no radio or radar, their bombs held to the wings by wire. The Germans referred to them as the Night Witches.
4Xol5 TIL that Ned Vizzini, author of “It’s Kind of a Funny Story,” and other popular young-adult books that dealt with themes such as teen anxiety and depression, died by suicide.
4XanJ TIL: In 1610 Galileo used a telescope to discover that Venus goes through phases similar to the Moon, a revolutionary observation that “ultimately helped to deliver a deathblow to the long-held concept of an Earth-centered universe.”