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TIL if you microwave a sliced grape, it can explode in a fireball of super-heated plasma.

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M7kYa TIL of the Byzantine emperor Andronikos I Komnenos, ruling between 1081 and 1118. Due to his frequest mutilation and blinding of enemies he was given the epithet "Misophaes" - Hater of Sunlight
0wPJR TIL that this is what animals that exist today would look like if drawn based on their bones - just like dinosaurs are
9jgB TIL while directing Jurassic Park, when Spielberg saw CGI of T. rex, he said to stop motion animator Phil Tippett , “You’re out of a job,” to which Tippett replied, “Don’t you mean extinct?”. Spielberg later incorporated this dialogue into the movie
jN1JM TIL in 1850s British explorer Sir Richard Burton called Somalis superstitious for believing mosquitos caused malaria
m0jx TIL the “Nuts” in Honey Nut Cheerios is “natural almond flavour” derived from benzaldehyde which in turn is generally derived from peach and apricot pits.