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TIL Percy Spencer,the inventor of the microwave appliance received only $2 for his discovery

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AJDx TIL: In the late 19th century the feminist movements in both Europe and America were decidedly anti-condom. Feminists wanted birth control to be exclusively in the hands of women, and disapproved of male-controlled methods such as the condom.
8a0x4 TIL that Johnny Appleseed, of American folklore fame, may have been planting apples that were good for eating, but suitable for making hard cider from. He was basically going around planting apples to eventually turn into booze, and that is why he was so welcome wherever he went.
oRxNR TIL about a mysterious century old grove of pine trees in Poland called the Crooked Forest. It's made up of 400 trees that all bend sharply just above ground level, then curve back upright. It's generally believed that some form of human tool/technique was used, but their bending remains a mystery
X9a8 TIL Kwanzaa was first celebrated in 1966 and is an African-American thing, not an African holiday
MdAb TIL the owner of Macy’s died on the Titanic. He refused to get in a lifeboat before women and children, and his wife refused to leave without him. She said, “I will not be separated from my husband. As we have lived, so will we die, together.” They were last seen standing on the deck, arm in arm