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TIL that Panko is cooked by use of electrical current - the dough is electrified between two plates which produces an airier, crisper texture without a crust like conventionally-baked loaves.

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Ypr5A TIL that Twenty or more US Airmen were in Hiroshima as POWs when the Atom Bomb fell. SSG Ralph J. Neal and another Airman, Norman Brissette, survived the initial blast by jumping into a cesspool, only to die thirteen days later from radiation poisoning.
rRkbW TIL that North Korea trained some members of the Official IRA and the men posed as members of the Maltese Communist Party
mJdp TIL That the worlds biggest helicopter can carry a plane
kORGg TIL Neither the FBI or New York recorded the 9/11 attack in the crime statisitcs report for 2001. They claimed this single event would skew the entire crime statistics program and therefor could not be counted as deaths in New York.
LkJnV TIL that sometimes, the revolution is televised: the execution of Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceaușescu and his wife Elena following the Romanian Revolution was videotaped and shown on TV.