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TIL that Robert Plant donated money to a radio station that promised to never play “Stairway to Heaven” again

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9Ylep TIL that microwaves actually heat things by violently shaking the water molecules inside of the object so fast that the friction causes it to heat up.
e0Ajb TIL that MArriage between two people of different religions is illegal in Israel.
8aj5V TIL 1963 film Charade was accidentally released into the public domain when the filmmakers neglected to add copyright text/symbol when published
p8vVe TIL that the moon is 1/400th the size of the sun but also 1/400th the distance from Earth which results in the moon and the sun being the same size in the sky, a coincidence not shared by any other known planet-moon combination.
Lkd6V TIL ketchup started as a Chinese fish-based sauce, then it was picked up by the British and made into a mushroom-based sauce, and finally picked up by the Americans and made into a tomato-based sauce.