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

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JmbQ TIL The Popeyes fast food chain got it’s name from the main character in a crime thriller played by Gene Hackman not from the cartoon character
J1L6B TIL there have only been 2 presidents in the history of the United States who were prosecutors prior to entering the Office: James Knox Polk (1845-1849) and William McKinley (1897-1901).
Br04L TIL Niagara Falls was drained in 1969.
5Y1D TIL Natalie Portman helped with the writing of “The Social Network” by providing inside information about the social life at Harvard because she was a Harvard student at the time Facebook first appeared there. The lines “Who was the movie star?”, “Does it matter?” in the movie refers to her.
ZPmB TIL if you laid all the molecules in a teaspoon of water end to end, it would stretch 10 times the width of the solar system