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TIL that car robberies are so common in Oakland, CA that some residents roll down their windows and unlock their doors to prevent damage to their vehicles.

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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.
ep674 TIL the Technicolor company had a custom train-car built in the 1910s to process color film on location
KjYa TIL the Germans accidentally bombed themselves during the onset of WW2, then used propaganda to blame the French and British while threatening five-fold retaliation.
GY1A1 TIL: People who suffer from gout are significantly less likely to develop Parkinson’s disease.
a5PL TIL that tomorrow is Bloomsday, where James Joyce enthusiasts all over the world celebrate the day their favorite author got a handjob on a first date