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

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ADbd4 TIL In 1956, Jackie Robinson Retired from MLB for VP of Chock Full O' Nuts, Iconic New York Coffee Company
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JxeQ TIL that in 1981, a Turkish man shot Pope John Paul II four times but didn’t kill him. After the Pope recovered, he visited the assassin in prison forgave him. The assassin was pardoned at the Pope’s request and 33 years after his crime, he visited Vatican City and laid flowers on the Pope’s tomb.
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