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TIL in 1999, James Saville was arrested and charged with plotting to kill Maricopa County sheriff Joe Arpaio with a pipe bomb. Saville was acquitted four years later when it was discovered that Arpaio’s detectives had purchased the bomb parts themselves and framed Saville in a publicity stunt.

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ZDwo TIL in 1945, a radar engineer named Percy Spencer was working at Ratheon. He stepped in front of a magnetron, a device that powers radars. He noticed a chocolate bar in his pocket had melted. Later that year, he filed a patent for the first microwave oven.
dDDeB TIL the oldest operational commercial passenger plane is in the fleet of Canadian Operator Nolinor Aviation and is circa 48 years old
9Yn7r TIL about Luna 15, the failed soviet lunar probe that launched three days before Apollo 11, while Neil Armstrong was taking the first steps on the moon, the soviets were trying to regain control of the probe were ultimately they failed causing luna 15 to promptly crash into a mountain
DQnDV TIL in 2017, a team of scholars, linguists, and computer scientists at the University of Padua analyzed 150 Italian novels written by 40 authors. They used different methods to determine that Domenico Starnone, a male writer, is the probable author of the Elena Ferrante novels.
5Ydap TIL there is a color code for gas/jerry cans. Red: gasoline. Blue: kerosene. Yellow: diesel. Green: oil. Although the color of the container is not regulated by OSHA, it appears to be a manufacturer's standard.