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today I learned Paul Walker and Denise Richards starred in a movie together, and it's a beautiful disasterpiece. "Tammy and the T Rex"

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wK5J TIL that the microwave oven was discovered by accident by an engineer working on radar technology during WWII. While he was standing in front of an active radar in a laboratory, the candybar in his pocket started to melt. He then tried to pop popcorn kernels with the radar to prove his idea.
p4Xe TIL that every Chili’s restaurant has one upside down picture and if you mention it, you will receive a free appetizer.
v1gWx TIL that Alfred Hitchcock was known to play elaborate pranks on his colleagues. One night he hosted a dinner party and dyed all the dishes blue because "there aren't enough blue foods."
wAQ8 Today I learned that there are no surviving copies of Socrates’ actual work. Everything from him was written by Plato, with comments by Xenophon, Aristotle, and Aristophanes.
rN0Bd TIL an autodidact with limited formal education, Joseph Stalin was a voracious reader, amassing a personal library of over 20,000 books, with a particular interest in history. He enjoyed classical music, owned around 2,700 records, and often attended the Bolshoi Theatre.