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TIL Danny DeVito produced Pulp Fiction, Gattaca, How High, Man on the Moon, and Garden State

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x6bV1 TIL: scholars Karl Popper and Wittgenstein once argued whether philosophical problems existed. After Popper said moral rules were legitimate problems, Wittgenstein pointed a fire poker at Popper, daring him to give an example, to which Popper replied: Not to threaten visiting lecturers with pokers
OlM7 TIL that from 1952 to 1956, billions of Kent Micronite cigarettes were sold with a filter made from asbestos. The new filter was marketed as “the greatest health protection in cigarette history.”
XEbbr TIL: The "air" puffing-up most potato chips bags is actually not air. It's nitrogen. Chemical reactions with regular air would hurt the taste. Also, typical snacks bags are a high-tech sandwich of polypropylene, a possible thin coating of aluminum, and polyethylene (grocery-bag plastic).
kvog TIL Canadian lottery winner Sharon Tirabassi blew through her $10 million winnings in less than 10 years and now lives paycheck to paycheck
p80yp TIL that one of Hitler's favourite engineers, Werner von Braun was a pioneer of rocket and space technology in the United States