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TIL most wheat bread is just white bread with brown dye.

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d70j TIL Kara Hultgreen became the first female fighter pilot, despite having low scores which normally would end your career. She later fatally crashed her F-14 in a landing attempt.
GApGG TIL both parents on Shaun King's birth certificate are white, but he claims to be biracial saying his real father is a black man
6Mjm TIL the traditional role of the Japanese Emperor is not chief of the military, but “protector of the rice-plants.” Each year he must enact the Onamesai, an erotic and secret ritual that ensures the continual flow of divine rice into our realm.
v9Qj TIL that child chimney sweep apprentices had to crawl through vertical mazes of chimneys and frequently were left to die when they became stuck
Ea0W TIL that in 1980, a gambling addict who lost $750k placed a massive bomb in a Nevada casino to try and extort money. The FBI tried to defuse the bomb but failed, destroying the whole casino.