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TIL it takes around 20 minutes to preheat an oven.

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wLo7W TIL that the ADE 651; an inert rod of metal with a plastic hinge, was sold as a bomb detector. It was used by the militaries of Iraq, Afghanistan and more than a dozen other countries for years before anyone noticed that it did nothing at all.
e0Mk TIL the Australian Boab tree is so large and hollow that they were once used as temporary holding cells for Aboriginal prisoners
69gJY TIL that mushrooms are more closely related to humans than to plants
l7nwa TIL that B-Movies were meant to be the bottom half of a double movie feature and were cheaper than Hollywood A-List Films (about 20% of the budget). Until the 1950s and 1960s, they were just considered cheaper films that theatres would pay a flat rental fee. The 'B' was not a grade for poor value.
Z88JB TIL there's a penny on Mars