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TIL: It takes more power, to power the clock on a microwave then to cook food.

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YvaB TIL for April Fools Day in 1957, the BBC created a hoax in which they convinced the nation that spaghetti was grown from “spaghetti trees” in Italy and Switzerland.
E5Rp TIL eHarmony only matches women with men who are taller than them, because of complaints from women matched with short men
16Gar TIL that Paul Hogan - aka Crocodile Dundee - got his start in show business on a TV talent show. He billed himself as a tap-dancing knife thrower, but could do neither. It was a fake act done specifically to make the judges look foolish.
PY4pg TIL of water puppetry where puppets on water are used to tell popular stories or folktales. It originated in 11th century east Asia in the flooded rice fields
pYwbe TIL Bats talk about sex, food, and sleep.