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How Horrible Chocolate Helped Win World War II

Ridiculous History

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The History of Melting Chocolate

Percy Spencer is the reason we have the microwave oven. He was a junior engineer, kind of he only had,. they make it real clear on this article in New England HistoricalSociety.com that he only had a fifth grade education but he actually, he was no slouch. So he was actually the fourth person to hire by a little company out of Cambridge, Massachusetts called Raytheon - much more known as a defense contractor.

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