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TIL that there is a brand of potato chips developed for prison commissaries that was so popular on the inside that it became available to the mass market.

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XE7gk TIL that South Pole so much colder than the North Pole because it sits on top of a very thick ice sheet, which itself sits on a continent. The surface of the ice sheet at the South Pole is more than 9,000 feet in elevation--more than a mile and a half above sea level.
WVKo TIL A woman has failed her driving test 771 times.
4N5R TIL that up to 25% of the population may have trouble distinguishing between right and left, even into adulthood.
04o1 TIL Pat Robertson and several others who incorrectly predicted various dates for the end of world were jointly awarded an Ig Nobel Prize for “teaching the world to be careful when making mathematical assumptions and calculations”
4km7N TIL Soap operas got their name due to being dramas sponsored by soap companies