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

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lnV5 TIL ‘Mountain Dew’ was originally Southern and/or Irish slang for moonshine
6EZVW TIL in 1985, MTV ran a contest based on John Mellencamp's song Pink Houses, where they gave away a pink house. Unfortunately, the house was on a toxic waste dump in Indiana. Not wanting to poison his fans, they were forced to buy another house. Also included was a garage full of Hawaiian Punch.
kJdM7 TIL that there's an Egyptian Hieroglyph unicode bock! And it has many interesting characters! 𓂺
x6rr1 TIL that part of the reason the Mafia is so powerful in southern Italy is because Italian judges who score well on exams get to choose their post; those sent to work in Calabria usually request to be transferred right away.
R7xk6 TIL of Roar, a 1981 wildlife film infamous for its troubled production. Over 70 cast and crew were injured, 15 lions and tigers escaped, 3 had to be shot, and $3 million worth of sets and equipment were destroyed when a dam collapsed