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Today I learned that Panko was made by electrifying bread

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woEg6 TIL Ancient Egypt may have had the first health-care plan in the world
Bg6vb TIL that in Sweden you have a constitutional right to allemansrätten, which is the right to peacefully hike, camp, bike and enjoy nature anywhere in the country unimpeded, with the only restriction being very close to someone's house or if you mess up a garden.
rRyGx TIL Polar Bears’ fur is not white, but transparent. The long, coarse outer hairs are transparent and hollow. The thinner undercoat hairs aren’t hollow, but are still colorless. The hair appears white due the air spaces in each hair scattering light of all colors.
9wPY6 TIL about the Hotel du Lac in Tunis, Tunisia constructed in the 1970s which is an example of Brutalist architecture. The hotel has a cantilevered design resulting in a top floor double the length of the ground floor and has prompted comparisons with the sand crawler vehicle of the Star Wars films.
yvLM TIL when Ellen Burstyn (the mother in The Exorcist) went to see the film in theatre, a woman fainted. Burstyn ran over to help her, but called for someone else to help when she realized the fainted woman would have a bad time waking up to Burstyn’s face.