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TIL microwaving a grape will make plasma

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GAnMG TIL that the United States has a long and storied history of partisan guerilla warfare against its own citizens
4k4Yo TIL Avro Vulcan bomber pilots, on nuclear missions, would wear a standard black eyepatch to protect one eye from the flash of a nuclear bomb. Taking it off once they were blinded in the exposed eye.
7r7gr TIL as a U.S. Navy officer, Jimmy Carter helped clean up after the first nuclear reactor accident in Canada in 1952
41RR TIL that there is a large tarantula that keeps small frogs that it uses as bodyguards to protect its eggs.
mvjR TIL the man who sang, “You’re a mean one, Mr. Grinch”, also voiced Tony the Tiger for more than 5 decades.