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Today I learned that Panko was made by electrifying bread

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MeNVV TIL that in the aftermath of the Great Japan Earthquake of 1923, when fire broke out around the city of Tokyo, 44,000 people went to the river to escape the flames, only to be closed in by the flames on all sides. Almost all were then, in a single moment, incinerated by a 300ft tall fire tornado
1KXD TIL Ants can get caught in a circular pheromone trail, so that the whole colony pinwheels forever until they die.
xPYo TIL In the United States, the star denoting the main entry floor of a building is mandated by law.
rNA54 TIL that the United States Army, after the end of the American Revolution, was originally renamed the Legion of the United States.
4XwNJ TIL that in 1920 a 4th century lead tablet was discovered in which Silvanus asked the god Nodens to curse the thief that stole his ring. The ring, interestingly, has been identified as one found 130km from the tablet 200 years prior.