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TIL microwaving a grape will make plasma

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J1Qdm TIL about Arthur Wermuth, a U.S. Army Captain from South Dakota who was placed with the 57th Infantry ((Philippine Scouts). He performed "countless" guerrilla missions against the Japanese, often alone or with his friend Sergeant "Jock" Crispin Jacob, and earned the nickname "Ghost of Bataan."
dZwE TIL John Kellogg, inventor of Corn Flakes and founder of the Kellogg company, worked tirelessly to “reform masturbators” by wrapping their genitals in sharp wire to prevent arousal, burning their genitals with acid to desensitize, and circumcising small boys without anesthetic, among other things
4XnNa TIL that in 1953, an Australian Centurion main battle tank survived a nuclear test that was only 500 yards away. Later nicknamed the Atomic Tank, it went on to serve in the Australian military for 23 more years, including 15 months of service in Vietnam.
VMwep TIL Margaret Hamilton, a self-taught computer programmer, coded the software that landed Armstrong and Aldrin on the moon in 1969
rRlBw TIL hurricanes and storms induce labor in pregnant women because low barometric pressures induce delivery by leading to breaking their water.