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TIL That Romania’s Senate has rejected a proposed law that would have taxed witches and fortune tellers due to fears of being cursed for it.

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rRdjW TIL a Ukrainian child psychiatrist, Grunya Sukhareva, discovered Asperger Syndrome 20 years before Hans Asperger did
aw450 TIL in 1945, a school dropout and self-taught electrical 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.
OGgj4 TIL The 1967 adaptation of Ulysses was considered so vulgar in New Zealand, theaters would play it to gender segregated audiences. The offensive parts were only 1 F-word and a character describing oral sex.
P1VEG TIL Ulysses Grant wrote his memoir while he was bankrupt and terminally ill. Mark Twain developed marketing strategy including Union veterans selling books in uniform. Eventually it became one of the bestselling books of the century.
X0oP6 TIL that, for legal reasons, in the years near 1900, New York saloons served inedible sandwiches with alcohol.