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TIL that microwaves heat food by doing it's best to twist the molecules to align with the wave, OR IN SHORT: food is trying to magnetize itself.

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v80B TIL in 1968, a cash-laden bank vehicle was pulled over by a motorcycle cop claiming the car had been rigged with a bomb. The cop got under the car to “defuse” the device. When the car started to smoke, everybody ran. Then the “cop” just drove the car away. The 300M Yen robbery remains unsolved
GDkJ TIL that back in the day, a lot of professional middle-class blacks always traveled with a chauffeur’s hat. The reason: If they were driving a nice new car through a small southern town, they didn’t want police officers, or any other whites, to know the car belonged to them.
Wamo TIL the worst shark attack in human history was when the USS Indianapolis was sunk sending 900 men into the shark infested waters. Only 300 men survived.
WkeV9 TIL that in an attempt to modernize Newfoundland, Canada, the province's Premier hired the former Latvian Minister of Finance, Alfred Valdmanis. While industrializing the province, Valdmanis embezzled hundreds of thousands of dollars before being unmasked as a criminal and former Nazi collaborator.
On8X TIL that apes have been shown using language to ask questions (even complicated questions!) of primate researchers for over 40 years, and the other post to the contrary is total BS.