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TIL Napoléon shipped more than 800,000 pints of wine during his Egyptian Campaign.

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neowG TIL: Pringles are not truly a potato chip but a "potato crisp" as they are made from a dough and fried. The can was developed by a engineer who wrote Fantasy Fiction and used a super computer to assure the shape and size of the can for minimum breakage on movement.
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