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TIL Microwaving food does not diminish the nutrients. When done right, it’s actually one of the most nutritionally sound methods in food preparation.

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We64 TIL when asked what future technology they would most like to have, young adults answered “time travel” more than any age group, while 30-to-49-year-olds wanted robot servants more than any other age group. Senior citizens were the least interested in time travel.
XQpD TIL a 45 year-old Canadian spent 11 years walking around the world. He traveled over 75,000 km and burned through 54 pairs of shoes.
Ypw8B TIL during the Chernobyl meltdown, it was feared that molten fuel (corium) would reach flooded areas and explode. Three engineers tried to prevent this, but corium dopped into the water before they arrived. The fuel then cooled into a ceramic pumice and floated around the room, instead of exploding.
0wdlM TIL According to Plutarch the traitor Bessus was executed by having two trees forcibly bent towards each other, tied him to both, and then the trees released, causing an agonizing death in which the ligaments, tendons, muscles and organs would slowly come apart as the trees straightened
Lkvyp TIL that the term "nuclear family" traces its origins as far back as 1925; it did not originate in 1989 with the premiere of The Simpsons.