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TIL that yoga mats were invented more than two thousand years after yoga

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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.
5lmp TIL: Siberian tigers are reported to be the most patient and punishing predators
DQdEg TIL that when Italian goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon was criticized for wearing no. 88 (a code used by nazis), he claimed to not have known about the meaning and had only chosen it because no. 01 had been denied, which he'd wanted due to his admiration for the "Gerneral Lee" from Dukes of Hazard.
mEnR TIL Women don’t have a higher pain threshold than men, and that at a biological level both are the same.
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