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TIL that refrigerated bread isn't hard due to moisture loss but crystalized starch which can be fixed by simply heating it up.

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KY6lB TIL that when Leslie Nielsen died in 2010, ESPN ran an obituary for "Enrico Pallazzo," the opera singer that Lt. Frank Drebin (Nielsen) impersonated in the first Naked Gun! movie.
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