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TIL that the microwave was invented by accident more than 70 years ago when a Raytheon engineer named Percy Spencer was testing a military-grade magnetron and suddenly realized his snack had melted.

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KYMx6 TIL that in 2012, German animal rights groups estimated that up to 500,000 animals were dying each year to "excessive sex practices." Later that year, Germany would criminalize bestiality.
ADNvo TIL about Esperanto, an attempt from 1887 to create an internationally spoken language. It's supposedly 5 times easier to learn than English or German and makes learning other languages easier. It's also available on Duolingo.
KYdrE TIL Mexico is the top consumer of eggs in the world surpassing Japan, with 409 eggs per person in 2021.
0dw6R TIL about the Banquet of Blood, an 8th century banquet during which the Abbasids wiped out 80 members of the preceding Umayyads. The dying and dead were covered with a leather carpet and the meal proceeded.
EZ1p TIL A Gurkha Soldier of the Indian Army single handedly fought off 40 armed bandits with his knife killing 3 and injuring 8 to save a girl from getting raped during a train robbery in India