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TIL that modern ovens have a safety override that allows them to run continuously rather than automatically shutting off. This feature is for Orthodox Jews observing Sabbath who aren’t permitted to push buttons.

rryw TIL that Robert Stack (original host of the popular Unsolved Mysteries television show) was extremely skeptical about the segments involving paranormal occurrences. While recording his famous narrations, he would often turn to his producer in between takes and exclaim: “Oh, come on, Raymond!”
697W7 TIL that after Zaire, now known as DR Congo, lost all their matches at the 1974 FIFA World Cup, the players were forbidden to leave their home country, so that they couldn't play for European clubs with the offers that came in after the World Cup
d8N6B TIL Gustaw Herling wrote a book in 1951 entitled A World Apart about the two years he spent in the Soviet gulag, and that the book ends with letters from prominent Communists assuring westerners that these camps don't exist.
OGGJX TIL Angels Landing is a 1,488 ft tall rock formation in Zion National Park in Utah. It is an unique fin-like mountain formation that juts out to the center of the main canyon. A trail cut into solid rock in 1926 leads to the top of Angels Landing and provides panoramic view of Zion Canyon.
axZ TIL that a 23yo French serial-impostor once successfully convinced a Texas family that he was thier 16yo son who was kidnapped 3 years earlier, despite having the wrong color eyes and a French accent