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Ian Watkins the Steps guy really takes the cake for a name suddenly becoming rather unfortunate one day.
https://www.euronews.com/2025/11/27/adolf-hitlers-namesake-t...
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1lS_WxQ3zeU
The actor played the werewolf from the Canadian remake of Being Human.
Looking online apparently this damages the magnetron, but no one has found out why precisely. There are some pop-culture explanations that the reflected energy overloads the magnetron and so on, but I don't think anyone has done the parallel what this team has done to actually say what happens to the magnetron.
The PI has a website https://www.aaronslepkov.com/research but nothing new about this stuff there. I'm curious.
filters needed on the camera to catch detail?
https://old.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/3ittew/what_is_...
My favorites: Ivory soap--bubbles outward Grapes--see article Incandescent lightbulb --lights up Wine bottle--explodes, do this last
Also lots of things you think would be bad do nothing: spray paint can, soup can, silverware, cup of gas with aluminum foil in it.
Draw on paper with a lead pencil - it burns out the pencil lines. Perfect for making pirate maps.
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