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TIL it takes around 20 minutes to preheat an oven.

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R7kla TIL in 1989 murderer Michael Godwin had his sentence reduced to life imprisonment after five years awaiting the electric chair but was electrocuted accidentally while sitting naked on a steel toilet seat in his cell. While trying to fix his television set, he bit into a wire and was electrocuted.
XERPr TIL that the Japanese film Battle Royale (2000) is banned in South Korea and took 11 years before it was released in the United States and Canada. The film was banned in Germany in 2013, but this was later overturned. Quentin Tarantino considers Battle Royale to be one of his favourite films.
LoNQ TIL Space shuttles have blunt tips creating as much drag as possible to create a blanket of pressure protecting the shuttle from fire while entering earth’s atmosphere
KOPd9 TIL of Adolfo Kaminsky, a 18 year-old French forger who faked IDs for Jews during WWII. He once worked for 3 days straight to make papers for 300 children until he passed out. He kept his work a secret - his own daughter only learned the details while writing a book about him.
9gWB TIL: Typographic Rivers are the gaps in typesetting, which appear to run through a paragraph of text, due to a coincidental alignment of spaces.