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TIL the word "colonel" is pronounced "kernel"because the French wanted to have the "R" sound in the word, instead of the two "L" sounds.

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ZDwo TIL in 1945, a radar engineer named Percy Spencer was working at Ratheon. He stepped in front of a magnetron, a device that powers radars. He noticed a chocolate bar in his pocket had melted. Later that year, he filed a patent for the first microwave oven.
Z80Ea TIL that a man attempted to kidnap a woman on the street. She escaped and ran into a nearby martial arts dojo for safety. The assaulter pursued her inside. Shortly after he was carried out on a stretcher and left in an ambulance.
yA5J TIL that Simon the cat, a feline aboard Royal Navy Ship “The Amethyst” was awarded The Dickin Medal for gallantry under fire. The gallantry? He protected the ship’s food supplies from an infestation of rats.
4kdMa TIL about the Great Canadian Maple Syrup Heist, the biggest heist (with inflation accounted for) in Canadian history was almost 3,000 tons of maple syrup and took place over several months in 2011 and 2012.
BrEWb TIL When Teddy Roosevelt led the Rough Riders up San Juan Hill, the gun he carried was a .38 Colt revolver salvaged from the wreck of the USS Maine. The USS Maine exploded outside Havana in early 1898 and the pistol was given to him by his brother-in-law.