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TIL Brown rice is the same grain as white rice, it just keeps it's outer hull

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oePY TIL Kelsey Grammer’s Dad was murdered; his little sister was kidnapped, raped, and murdered by Freddie Glen; both his twin half-brothers died in a scuba diving accident; and his best friend was killed in 9/11
VB04k TIL the Scrabble game was created by Alfred Butts in Queens, New York in 1931. It didn’t became a sensation until 1952 when the President of Macy’s fell in love with the game and placed an order so large Butts could fill it. The company was sold and two years later 4 millions games were made.
W7QDB TIL about Juliane Koepcke. At age 17 she survived alone 11 days in a rainforest, becoming the only survivor of the LANSA 508 crash. The plane was struck by lightning & broke apart in flight scattering more than a dozen passengers. Her unorthodox education allowed her to survive the hard journey out.
x6vOb TIL about the Personal Rescue Enclosure or "rescue ball", a 36 inches (91 cm) sphere intended to protect an astronaut in space in case they had to leave the Space Shuttle; another suited astronaut would then carry the sphere. It was developed in the early days of the Shuttle program but never flown.
xeL5 TIL that two fox reporters got fired for revealing the health dangers in milk