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TIL A Writer for Futurama Created a New Math Theorem To Explain One of the Show's Plot Twists

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M7eQV TIL about king Wuyi of Shang dynasty of China. He humiliated an idol called the god of heaven after playing a game with it when it lost the game. He also shot a leather bag filled with blood in the sky and said he was shooting the heavens.He was killed by lightening while on a hunting trip.
9Y7WG TIL Deglazing: What it Is and Why To Do It. Deglazing is a fancy and intimidating word that means to pour some cold liquid into a very hot pan to get up all the brown bits stuck to the bottom of the pan. Those brown bits are where all the flavors are, and it is called “fond.”
Y7xPB TIL there is a large Dietz & Watson deli meats recall
7rbbO TIL the 1990s AOL modem sound was a sequence that allowed digital devices to piggyback on an analog telephone network to use sound waves to carry data across phone lines
e0erb TIL about Operation Catapult. After the fall of France in 1940 Churchill ordered the Royal Navy to seize or destroy the French Navy to prevent Hitler from using it. In one British attack 1,297 French sailors were killed. This proved to US that Britain would resist Nazi Germany whatever the cost