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TIL ‘Kirk Cameron’s Saving Christmas’ was nominated AND won the 'Worst screen combo’ award, the nominees? Kirk Cameron and his ego

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nekA9 TIL that Jennifer Lopez stole the majority of her songs and rarely actually sings in any of them.
6EVp7 TIL that after 2 years of using a Catalan mercenary company to fight the Turks, the Byzantine emperor betrayed the company and tried to wipe them out in 1305. The mercenaries went on a rampage so destructive that the monks of Mount Athos only lifted their ban of Catalan citizens in the year 2000.
jN1Dv TIL that the microwave oven was invented by accident. In 1945, Percy Spencer, an American self-taught engineer, was working in a lab testing magnetrons, the high-powered vacuum tubes inside radars that produced microwaves, where he noticed a peanut butter candy bar in his pocket had begun to melt
1kwD TIL that a 6th grader found a way for the government to save $136M annually. The solution was to change the font used in papers.
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