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TIL that the time dedicated to commercials per half hour episode has more than doubled since the 1950’s.

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1gK4 TIL that brushing your teeth before breakfast instead of afterwards is healthier, and that brushing your teeth right after eating acidic foods, like oranges, damages your teeth permanently.
XrDP TIL Samsung is also a full time weapons manufacturer.
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.
J11JV TIL that skunks are immune to snake venom and will eat venomous snakes. Skunks are one of the only animals who have this immunity and are unaffected by doses of venom 100 times higher than those that could kill a household pet.
Yp0gG TIL there are languages with no words for numbers, and people who speak them have trouble keeping track of amounts higher than 5