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TIL it takes around 20 minutes to preheat an oven.

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BrAmr TIL that when Willem Dafoe flew to the Philippines in 1986 to film 'Platoon', his plane got stuck and he eventually ended up joining the EDSA People Power Revolution, a nonviolent revolution that officially ousted Ferdinand Marcos, its former dictator.
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