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TIL Vincent Van Gogh would use wool to experiment with different colour combinations, because paint was so expensive.

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Wk7wY Microwaves can transform a frozen pizza into hot, melted goodness in four minutes flat, but they can't rescue your melted ice-cream sundae. To cook food, a microwave oven converts voltage into high-frequency electromagnetic microwaves. The molecules in food—especially water and fat—absorb this energy and wiggle at high speeds, causing them to heat rapidly and warm the surrounding food. Although quickly turning leftovers cold would be handy, this is a one-way operation, explains David Pozar, a professor and microwave expert at the University of Massachusetts.
ANPlB TIL Sacheen Littlefeather, the "Native American" woman who accepted the 1973 Oscar on behalf of Marlon Brando (for his performance in The Godfather) while he boycotted the ceremony to protest the treatment of Native Americans in Hollywood, was actually a "pretendian" posing as a Native American.
7rKjb TIL A Burl is large growth on a tree trunk arising because of an over reaction to an insect attack where the cells go into overdrive. Burls are sought after for wood turning as the growth rings make very intricate patterns.
yQo9V TIL that in 1977, members of the rock band KISS mixed their own blood with the red ink used to print the first KISS comic book.
YbMW TIL: In 1962, an author named Kerry Wendell Thornley published a book called The Idle Warriors, which has the historical distinction of being the only book written about Lee Harvey Oswald before Kennedy’s assassination in 1963.