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TIL The Moon's Orbit is WEIRD

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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.
XEXpk TIL BCG (a bacteria) can be used as treatment for bladder cancer, effective trading one malady for another.
QJYRd TIL In the UK It is LEGAL for someone over 18 to buy a child over 16 beer, wine or cider if they are eating a table meal together in licensed premises. At home it is a different matter, a child aged five to 16 can drink alcohol at home or on other private premises.
jDp TIL America has been at war for 214 years, but at peace for only 21
rRQ1w TIL legendary R&B/soul singer Barry White was jailed for 4 months at age 16 for stealing $30,000 worth of Cadillac tires. While in jail, he heard Elvis Presley singing “Now Or Never” on the radio, an experience he later credited with changing the course of his life.