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TIL that microwave turntables that reverse direction every time they are used do so only because of a byproduct of something done to make microwaves cheaper to manufacture

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8eWmb TIL that the first person to ever be "banned" from the internet was a lawyer named Laurence Canter in 1994. He sent the first massive commercial spam email (advertising green card services). The backlash was so big that his ISP received so many complaints it crashed their servers.
OGYaX TIL that in 2014, a scientific paper was published with the phrase "get me off your f****g mailing list" repeated many times. The authors helped exposing what is known as a "predatory journal".
p8MO TIL: 35% of Democrats polled in 2007 believed the President or the CIA knew about the 9/11 attacks in advance.
woVa1 TIL Showing male pandas "panda pornography" is credited with recent population boom among pandas in captivity in China.
kj47 TIL that Joseph Bonaparte (Napoleon’s brother) lived in New Jersey after having been King of Spain, Sicily, and Naples. He lived off selling his jewelry and eventually moved back to Europe where he died and was buried near his brother.