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

Always interested in singing, Daniel Snider sang in the church choir as a child and was also sang in his high school choir and the All-State Chorus Choir. Snider played in several rock bands before joining an established rock band, Twisted Sister in 1976,

There is more to learn about that dude, watch "Warning: Parental Advisory"
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0308692/



Today i learned that the criminal hacking group behind Trickbot has used "Example.com" on a self signed certificate since - 2015!

Boom boom boom song isn't boom boom boom boom and if you say one two many booms people tease you for liking Venga Boys...

Which I do like. I'm a 90s kid.

Alexander Graham Bell invented several flying machines, but his attempts at flying flopped.

The George Washington Bridge was named after the Hudson River.

Americans eat 500 million pounds of peanut butter a year, enough to coat the floor, of the Grand Canyon.

That's a lot of peanut butter...

The geometry in firearms' mechanics is extremely crucial to safe operation, especially in revolvers.

The Celts used to have artificially blonde hair because they washed it with diluted calcium hydroxide, or limewater, which not only bleached their hair but killed the head lice and mites that were crawling around on their scalp.

Ancient Romans ran cold aqueduct water in pipes through their houses in an early form of air conditioning.

There several new emojis out for 2019. Many of them are symbols of different disabilities, such as guide and service dogs, wheelchairs, hearing aids and the canes that blind people might use.

As long as they don't use a puzzle piece as an emoji for autism I'm okay with that.

I'd like to invent an emoji for pro and anti vaccination, but I can only think of combinations of already existing emojis:

Pro-vax: Smiling man or woman face, needle, smiling child face
Anti-vax: Scowling man or woman face, needle, small coffin.

(the skin tone of the parents and their living child can be changed).

That there are some languages that have more consonants than vowels within them

When modern Turkish was created year 1928 they borrowed the letter Ç from the Albanian alphabet, Ş from the Romanian, Ü from the German and Ö from the Swedish alphabet.

I have learned that astrophysicists don't absolutely know how to fully define the singularity within a black, except it a place where matter is condensed & shrunken down to a level that the human mind can't really comprehend

In 2012, divers discovered a 2,000-year-old Roman shipwreck that was so well preserved even the food was intact in its storage jars.