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

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69YGW TIL that in the 1980s, apples were likely to contain higher levels of vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants. Monoculture cropping, heavy pesticide/fertilizer use, and erosion led to soil degradation + nutrient depletion, which in turn has led to the apples of today not having the same nutrients.
pDyQ TIL Philadelphia has a “consecrated hermit” who lives in a rowhouse he bought for $1.00.
oQWR TIL that before he ever wrote a feature film, Mel Brooks made an animated short where he improvised the voice of an old Jewish man forced to sit through an art house film. That short was called The Critic and it won him an Oscar.
8aL7G TIL: That upwards of 50% of all accidental deaths in the Tudor period were drownings
0weBR TIL the phrase hocus pocus originated in the Middle Ages from the Latin phrase "hoc est corpus meum" (this is my body) during the sacrament of communion, those who didn't know Latin thought they were saying hocus pocus