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Dec 7, 2022

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birthdays/events
what's your favorite holiday scent?
what's the worst holiday gift you ever got?
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game: what year was it?
how to get a response from santa
how to get a response from santa part 2
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game: everybody knows
4 holiday scams to be on the lookout for
2022 world's most expensive cities to live in
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worst habits this time of year
which holiday foods do you love so much you have to ration yourself?
goodbye/fun facts....national microwave oven day...Quite by accident, self-taught American engineer Percy Spencer discovered a way to heat food safely with microwaves. While working with an active radar in 1945, he noticed a melting chocolate bar in his pocket. The high-powered microwave beams created a heating effect ideal for cooking.  Spencer, employed by Raytheon, continued experimenting with different methods of heating food safely with microwaves. Raytheon filed a United States patent application for Spencer’s microwave cooking process on October 8th, 1945.  In the United States, there were around 40,000 microwaves in use in 1971, rising to one million by 1975...today over 90% of homes in the u.s. alone have a microwave