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TIL white rice is just brown rice with its outer layer milled off.

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GY8x4 TIL that when Dune (1984) was originally released in theaters, some locations gave out “cheat sheets” for people confused with the terminology of the Dune universe.
jNAbX TIL Two pigmy whales, a mother and a calf got stranded in a beach unable to navigate back to the ocean past a series of sandbanks. Seeing their plight a dolphin arrived and guided the whales 200 yards along the shoreline and out through a channel into the open sea.
v1jJj TIL that Cambridge University Library has run out of room for its 9 million+ books and built a huge store to hold 4 million more. The first book they put in was Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
ZwQ TIL that the novel Fahrenheit 451 was first published in Playboy magazine.
4kEBa TIL, Christopher Lee, who played Count Dooku in Star Wars, also had a minor career in heavy metal music.