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TIL Green beans and other vegetables can cause your microwave to arc

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DQ1pg TIL: Weird Al does not accept song parody suggestions for legal and personal reasons.
PYgaL TIL duct tape is a recognized & effective treatment for common warts like verrucas. In blind clinical trials duct tape removed warts completely 85% of the time. The success rate for cryogenic treatments was 60%.
Pg4J TIL that when margarine was introduced, a few states required it to be dyed pink so buyers would immediately know it is artificial - these “pink” laws were later declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court
69pwQ TIL that only 6 US Presidents were born after the first World War, and only one was born after 1946.
9wARr TIL of Marcus McDilda - a P-51 Mustang pilot shot down over Japan two days after the first atomic bombing. Tortured by the Japanese to learn U.S. atomic bomb capabilities, he told his captors the U.S. had 100 atomic bombs that would be dropped on Tokyo and Kyoto within "the next few days."