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TIL there is nothing inherently technical or necessary in a microwave popcorn bag. You can make microwave popcorn in a brown paper bag with normal kernels.

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QJWra TIL Ireland threw away its piece of moon rock estimated to be worth millions. "It's still there under a couple of tonnes of trash. That could definitely be worth over $5m (£3.1m). I'll tell you where it's at. It's in the Finglas landfill dump in Dublin," Gutheinz says.
mxMZP TIL that the Constitutional Apportionment Amendment, which was the first article of what would eventually become the Bill of Rights, had a matematical error in it that would have made it impossible to enforce. Despite the error, the amendment came a state away from passing on two separate occasions.
0wyj5 TIL late artist HR Giger decorated his house like his art and included a haunted train ride and a penis guillotine
ADNvo TIL about Esperanto, an attempt from 1887 to create an internationally spoken language. It's supposedly 5 times easier to learn than English or German and makes learning other languages easier. It's also available on Duolingo.
J1rek TIL about Peter Hagendorf a German mercenary who fought during the 30 years war and kept a diary. In it he casually describes the death of several of his children, being shot and abducting women.