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TIL Pringles are technically not potato chips but a slurry of rice, wheat, corn, and some potato flakes

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jROX TIL In 1969, the Woodstock concert was filmed for a documentary by a group of recent graduates from the NYU film school. A 26-year-old assistant director watched the show from a raised platform, never able to get away for food or to use the bathroom for three days. He was Martin Scorcese.
b69p7 TIL President Rutherford B. Hayes remembered in the US mostly for being the first president to lose the popular vote and win the electoral vote, is remembered very fondly in Paraguay for his help in settling a territorial dispute that ensured "its survival as a country"
8pQX TIL Johnny Cash accidentally started a wildfire when he let his pickup overheat in a CA forest. When asked why he did it, he responded “I didn’t do it, my truck did, and it’s dead, so you can’t question it.”
PY7lZ TIL The use of hops was unknown to Ancient Egyptians as was the process of carbonation. To a modern-day beer drinker, an Egyptian brew would taste more like a fruit drink
EM80 TIL that all white tigers are the result of inbreeding and have no conservational value since they don’t exist in the wild and are not a separate species.