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TIL panko is made from bread cooked with electrical current creating a unique crustless texture that crisps when fried

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aLkb TIL Conker’s Bad Fur Day, N64 game famous for adult themes storyline, actually came after an innocent and child-appropriate game starring Conker released a year before.
vP5GB TIL: The original penguins or Great Auk was a species driven to extinction by man. Scientists in the 1600s noticed and tried to prevent it through numerous laws, it failed. In 1840 the last auk in Britain was beaten to death with sticks as the men thought it was a witch causing storms.
NXr7b TIL the length of a day on Mars has been known to the nearest 3 minutes since 1666. But the exact length of a day on Saturn remained a mystery until 2019.
pYBGQ TIL that the rock climbing community has an agreed-upon difficulty scale they use to classify climbing routes. The highest difficulty level, 9C, has only been awarded to one route, named Silence, in central Norway. It was successfully climbed for the first and only time to date in 2018.
Xpj6 TIL a woman who claimed to be a survivor of the 9/11 attacks and even became the president of World Trade Centers Survivors Support Group turned out to be lying and wasn’t even in the United States during the attacks.