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TIL it takes around 20 minutes to preheat an oven.

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PZKg TIL North Korea has numerous concentration camps that are frighteningly similar to Auschwitz. Torture is abundant with 30% of most prisoners having some sort of facial injury. Human experimentation is preformed on unwilling prisoners. Meals are very bare and the “cells” are made out of dried mud.
KYgjB TIL in 1599, when the local Jivaro Indians in Ecuador got tired of enduring the cruel Spanish governor, who heavily taxed gold miners. The Indians caught this lover of gold and poured molten metal down his throat.
lo5JA TIL that in 2013 a petition requesting that the United States Government build a Death Star reached 25,000 signatures, the threshold requiring the White House office to make a response. One part of the response was, "The Administration does not support blowing up planets."
LQDPP TIL that the cost of earning a bachelor degree in France is about 170 Euros ($184.47) per year.
rlxd TIL in 1787 Congress got paid $6 a day that they were in session. Thats about $150 a day with inflation.